Jodi Kantor Quotes

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

Jodi Kantor

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If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Jim Courier

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I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar.

Joan Rivers

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We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.

Angus Young

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I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

Roselyn Sanchez

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Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I've ever had in a city.

Miranda Rae Mayo

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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Johnny Mathis

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Dick Cavett

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I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

Dick Cheney

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I don't think any of us are careful enough about emails. When you are writing an email, you should imagine yourself in an auditorium speaking to 5,000 people, with your mother and grandmother in the audience, and it is being broadcast on CNN.

Toby Emmerich

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American writers reduce the length of time devoted to exposition and character development.

Tim Pigott-Smith

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