Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.
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Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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The great bulk of the public doesn't believe this president any more when he tries to gin up a phony crisis. They don't believe he'd have much of an idea of how to deal with a real one. Enough of the lies. Enough of the incompetence and failure.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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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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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
