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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'You told your mother I was gonna blow you up with a fucking pumpkin bomb? What did she say?' 'She. Was. Terrified. She wants me to move home.'
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We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
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'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the future. No one had done that kind of movie in Quebec before because it's expensive, it's set in the future, and it's got tons of visual effects, and it's shot on green screen.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
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Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
