Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers.
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.
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I'm normally the least busy person I know.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
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In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.
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The reality about transportation is that it's future-oriented. If we're planning for what we have, we're behind the curve.
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I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
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Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
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The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
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For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.
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The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.
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I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
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When we launched WeWork back in 2010, we saw our opportunity to build community by bringing people together.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
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It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers.
