Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1931

Topics

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If I could live in space, I would definitely do that.

John M. Grunsfeld

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When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Robert Kennedy

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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Anna Magnani

MeWrinklesLongEarnPleaseThem

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Jeff Goodell

WaterFoodFallLookAustraliaWill

What I think of as 'freakonomics' is mostly storytelling around an idea - not a theme but an idea. I like ideas much more than themes. Themes are boring. Themes are, 'Wool is back,' but ideas are, 'Why is wool back?'

Stephen J. Dubner

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I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicated lives are never good.

Sirio Maccioni

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God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.

Masayoshi Son

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Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

Michelle Alexander

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I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we're talking very basic.

Christopher Gorham

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In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.

Christo

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The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Claire Danes

TimeFirst TimeFirstSeptember

I always try to travel light.

Claire Tomalin

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