Nicholas Kristof Quotes

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

Nicholas Kristof

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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Jimmy Connors

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The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

Matt Cameron

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I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

Michael Caine

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I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

Michael Finkel

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I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

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I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

Rivers Cuomo

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When things are good, you should be thanking God. I don't do enough of that. But if you get things, you should thank Him, not just take, take, take. He really listens.

Micky Ward

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Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.

Cornelius Nepos

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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

Christy Turlington

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You got to treat Mobb Deep different because our fan base is different. Our fan base is in the 'hood across the world.

Prodigy

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