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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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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Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
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I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.
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I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.
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I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.
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The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'
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On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
