Nicholas Kristof Quotes

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

Nicholas Kristof

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The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

Joe Manchin

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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.

John Burroughs

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I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

Melissa McCarthy

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My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.

Menachem Begin

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I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point. He represent black people.' I want to make the life of the mind sexy.

Michael Eric Dyson

LifeBrotherPeopleMindMeSexy

You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about talent and competition. 'Big Brother' is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together... and there are limits to that.

Sienna Guillory

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It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Tracey Ullman

MeSadnessThingsGetsPoignancy

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!

Tommy Lee Jones

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I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.

Julia Hartz

VisionPurposeValueThinkMission

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

Jonny Greenwood

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I like movies, because it's kind of a combination of every art, it's like it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Jonathan Jackson

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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Douglas Horton

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