Jodi Kantor Quotes
When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
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A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred - the human law in himself, his own individual will.
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I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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I would like to have three or four kids.
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Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
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My ambition is peace and perfection.
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When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.
