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Nicholas Kristof Quotes

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!

Nicholas Kristof

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 27, 1959

Topics

Work Day Land Human Out Clear

I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse. In fact, guilt is my middle name, and I think anybody who does do that thing with work and children and everything knows exactly what I'm talking about.

Jennifer Rowe

Life Work Children People Think

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

Community Empathy Democracy Decisions

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

Robert Lepage

Childhood Waiting Me Chance Lonely

There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.

Jeff Fisher

Game Impact You Feeling Run Out

It's interesting how people are sensitive to language and how it works.

John Sandford

People Language Interesting Sensitive

I trained myself to perform on the field.

Steve Carlton

Myself Field Perform Trained

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

Son Heung-min

Happy Want Prove More Never Always

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

Michelle Yeoh

Myself Bond Thought Always James

When a child knows there's a secret, they don't know what it is, but they know it's there, and they know they're being lied to.

Julia Garner

Child Know Secret Being Knows Lied

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

Juan Diego Florez

Music Beginning School Voice Thought

My first job out of college was with HBO. I worked in a small sales office in Chicago. So, I can say that even when I was just a little, low-on-the-totem-pole assistant for HBO, they were always amazing.

Jazmyn Simon

Job College Amazing Small I Can Say

How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Josh Gad

Time Me Think You Know Hand