Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
There is every reason to believe that if humans had not arrived on the scene, the Neanderthals would be there still, along with the wild horses and the woolly rhinos. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.
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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid. Be very afraid…
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I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.
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My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
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The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.
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I just want to make the best music I can make.
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The brain is wider than the sky.
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In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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Preserve the sayings of those people who are indifferent to the world. They say only that what Allah wishes them to say.
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There is every reason to believe that if humans had not arrived on the scene, the Neanderthals would be there still, along with the wild horses and the woolly rhinos. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it.
