Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
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The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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I tried to do Kwanzaa with my family and was like, 'This sucks. What am I doing this for?' For me, I felt like I was doing it because I was trying to live up to someone else's idea of what 'black' was.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
