Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.
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Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage.
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What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.
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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.
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The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs
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The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.
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The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.
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I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.
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As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?
