Nicholas Kristof Quotes

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.

Nicholas Kristof

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I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.

John B. Hood

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When times are good, there is budget available for increased research on secondary products or customers.

John Quelch

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I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

Sophocles

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I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Travis Scott

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I guess that is a good compliment for an actor for people to hate you wherever you go.

Tom Verica

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You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

Tom Vilsack

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I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great.

Robbie Williams

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I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything. Acts that they don't think are really going to do much end up having a career. I don't think anyone really knows what it is that drives somebody to get on their computer and want to download a song.

Jason Aldean

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Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

Dean Kamen

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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

Craig Brown

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