Jodi Kantor Quotes
I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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I tell young people who ask me about a future in writing not to go into it unless they get married to someone rich.
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Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
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I was like, Amazon Prime? Who has Amazon Prime? It turns out everybody.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
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The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
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I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
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If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they were moving in a different direction, both of them coming out of Europe and the Viennese school of design, which Lucie came from, and Coper learning from Lucie and then springing off on his own when she encouraged him to explore more widely. So he created his own work instead of just working for her and doing her forms. So that was a wonderful thing.
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I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.
