Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
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It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
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When he come up in the club he be blazin up Got stacks on deck like he savin up
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I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
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Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.