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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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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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.
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It's a really nice thing to have so many fans and people that really care.
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To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
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I think Hillary Clinton's been's depressing democratic turnout.
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I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
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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.
