Nicholas Kristof Quotes

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

Nicholas Kristof

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I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Joanna Garcia

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What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

John C. McGinley

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People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

Sinead Burke

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Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

Shiv Nadar

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The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

Tom Hayden

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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.

Tom Petty

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I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Robbie Robertson

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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Josh Billings

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London was an exciting place to work at one point because, socially, it was very progressive - a catalyst. There were very interesting artists making all types of work, but it got to a point where the social aspect became claustrophobic.

Chris Ofili

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Getting onstage and trying out all of my material and what works well with audiences and what doesn't, what works well in different atmospheres, has been the best training.

Colleen Ballinger

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Protecting space for civil society and citizenry is particularly critical in a world marked by rising political and economic inequality.

Winnie Byanyima

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My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

Picabo Street

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