Jodi Kantor Quotes
I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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Justice is revenge.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it went on for a long time after that but that's what really kicked it off. Of course a lot of people watched it just because of the novelty of the situation.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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You never get every job you want.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.
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I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.
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The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.
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I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.
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The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
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I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
