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Nicholas Kristof Quotes

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital management, I'd turn to Carson. Fiorina would make an articulate television pundit. But for president?

Nicholas Kristof

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Brain Management Advice Television

In wartime, you were just used to not having anything.

Jimmy Savile

You Anything Used Just Wartime Were

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

Matthew Macfadyen

Good Character People Think Spark

I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.

Jeff Buckley

Family Mother Music Son Time Loved

I can't sit around and wait for the telephone to ring.

Tony Curtis

Wait Ring Telephone Sit Around

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Roland Barthes

Saying Literature Worth Trouble Must

I don't even want to be president!

Michel Martelly

Want President Even

In my way of thinking, the world was my oyster, and there were thousands of products that could be developed.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

World Thinking Way Oyster Products

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

Dionne Warwick

Time People Me Feel Long Look

I really like Caravan Palace's electro swing stuff. They incorporate the electronic, but when you see them live, they're all on stage playing live music. They're all playing their instruments. They drop these beats with the DJs that are so incredible.

Drake Bell

Live Music You Swing Stage See

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Donald Knuth

Unhappy You Will Always Everything

The days of a politician talking platitudes are over, and if it wasn't for Mr. Trump in this race, people would have allowed politicians to have a pass in talking platitudes about things that will never be accomplished.

Corey Lewandowski

People Talking Will Race Never Over

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Paula Deen

Life Good Food Good Food My Life