Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.
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I like to think or say, some madness there.
