Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.
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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
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Make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it.
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If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
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It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
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Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.
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The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.
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This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.
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Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
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Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.
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Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.
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Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.
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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
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I do think sometimes there's danger in guest appearance mania. I've seen too many examples that sound cool on paper, like 'Oh, get that guy to sing the hook on that guy's song,' and then that's all it is. It's a cool idea that sounds good on paper.
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Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.
