Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
Iris Apfel
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I've never tried to be something I'm not.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
Oliver Tambo
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
Wayne Rooney
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There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
Ed Asner
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I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
Carl Hiaasen
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
Adam DeVine
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
Patrick Murray
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I think Picasso is more feminine than Matisse.
Gary Hume
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If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth, then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.
Oscar Wilde
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I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.
Javier Solana
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We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.
John Wilkes
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Our wants and needs distort to an unknown degree what we perceive. We block out a great deal of information that is potentially available if it does not fit our needs, expectations, preconceptions, and prejudgments.
Edgar Schein