Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.Elizabeth Kolbert
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
Dan Quinn -
I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
Fan Bingbing -
Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
Bailey Chase -
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
Gary Sinise -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin -
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
Ed Speleers
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham -
Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
Carine Roitfeld -
Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
Gabrielle Union -
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf -
I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
Dana Goodyear
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One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
Orville Wright -
Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
Barack Obama -
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson -
Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
Ram Dass -
Be in love with your life every detail of it
Jack Kerouac -
Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
Walter Benjamin
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
E. O. Wilson -
Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
Kanye West -
I'm not playing around in 2016.
Deontay Wilder -
I view myself as a male artist.
Bebe Rexha -
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.
Elizabeth Kolbert