Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.
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A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
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I've always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.
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People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.
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When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that according to the theory actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . it is possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
