Nicholas Kristof Quotes

Ben Affleck exec-produced a documentary for HBO called 'Reporter' about my 2007 win-a-trip journey. I take the trip each year partly to encourage young people to think about global humanitarian issues: I think blogs by a student may be more compelling for that audience than my own work.

Nicholas Kristof

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Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jesse Ventura

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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.

Meg Wolitzer

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In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.

Ann Leckie

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I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

Michael Franti

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Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Shirley MacLaine

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When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

Robert Ben Garant

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I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Robin Williams

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People do not make wars; governments do.

Ronald Reagan

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That's what I play - blue-collar Italian-Americans. You got to be typecast in order to work. I've been blessed.

Michael Rispoli

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It just takes me awhile to get comfortable in any situation.

Lou Barlow

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I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Joyce Banda

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I think, ultimately, the post-Reagan era will end with Scott Walker being elected the 45th President of the United States.

Anthony Scaramucci

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