Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
One of the reasons that people, many people, many environmentalists are critical of President Barack Obama's policies towards global warming is on the one hand he says the right things and he says he's committed to trying to reduce our current emissions.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
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I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.
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One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.
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When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them.
