Jodi Kantor Quotes

I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

Jodi Kantor

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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Andrew Vachss

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I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

Robert Irwin

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East and Gulf Coast states are at risk of hurricanes; prairie and other central and southern states are constantly threatened by tornados; and western states commonly face damaging droughts. Extreme weather does not discriminate by American geography.

Matt Cartwright

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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

Anish Kapoor

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My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

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I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

Rita Ora

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You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

Russel Honore

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What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Michael Wolf

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I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.

Michael Oren

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This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there.

Dennis Farina

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You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

Anthony Kiedis

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I know, just from directing television, where you have a huge support system of producers and writers and a script supervisor - not just the cast but a crew of 100 people - there are, as a director, hundreds of questions that you have to answer every day.

Scott Foley

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