Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.
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Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.
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I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.
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Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.
