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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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about 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 you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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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 afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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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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You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.
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People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.
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Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.
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When society involves the anarch in a conflict which in which he does not participate inwardly, it challenges him to launch an opposition. He will try to turn the lever with which society moves him. Society is then at his disposal, say, as a stage for grand spectacles that are devised for him. Everything changes; the fetter becomes fascinating, danger an adventure, a suspenseful task.
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Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
