Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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Writing a log line helps you define - for yourself - the essential elements of the plot. It will also let you know immediately if major components of the plot are missing.
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One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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My best advice to young women looking to get into both travel and tech is to put yourself out there, get out of your comfort zone, and be persistent.
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For premieres, you get designers offering to dress you for the evening, which is nice.
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The history of life thus consists of ‘long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.'
