Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
At the heart of Darwin’s theory, as one of his biographers has put it, is “the denial of humanity’s special status.”
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
Jack Lemmon
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
Otis Blackwell
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
A. E. van Vogt
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Fede Alvarez
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
Victoria Woodhull
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Ted Nelson
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
La'Porsha Renae
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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Abraham Lincoln
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.
Karl Marx
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Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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I was very political when JFK ran.
Bob Newhart
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What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
Vikram Seth
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I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the Mars Polar Lander is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
Celia Rivenbark
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At the heart of Darwin’s theory, as one of his biographers has put it, is “the denial of humanity’s special status.”
Elizabeth Kolbert
