Jodi Kantor Quotes
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There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
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...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.
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It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.
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Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
