Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.
Quotes to Explore
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
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I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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I have worn things that are too tight, and I've learned over the years that just because the size on the tag says something smaller doesn't mean it looks good on you.
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Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.
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The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
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Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.
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You must spend money to make money.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
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We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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It's hard after a long day at work to still get your butt up and go to the gym, so classes are the best motivators for me, or if I have a trainer. I had a trainer for a while, and that was cool because you just show up, and they tell you what to do.
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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
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Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.
