Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

Jeffrey Kluger

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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Joan Didion

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I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

John Cleese

LoveCultureThinkingParentYou

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Michael Harrington

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It's so special to meet people after the show, getting that connection during the actual concert. It creates a stronger bond.

Sigrid

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Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Tom Brokaw

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As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel's already fierce reputation.

Ronen Bergman

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This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.

Michael McCaul

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Once you become a professional, to get through a ballet like 'Swan Lake' - four acts as the lead, changing character - the perseverance is incredible. It takes a lot to make it through and keep the same energy throughout the entire performance.

Misty Copeland

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I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Josh Brolin

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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

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I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.

Chris Benz

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It's definitely one of my biggest passions - I played every day after school with all my friends from high school in Pennsylvania. They weren't really soccer players, so we would play basketball all the time.

Christian Pulisic

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