Jodi Kantor Quotes
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.Jodi Kantor
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
Irwin Rose -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
Lata Mangeshkar -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams -
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole -
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
Imran Amed -
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
Bar Paly -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
Edgar Wright -
I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
Wale -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong -
People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
Tamara Mellon -
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
Zach Galifianakis
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I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
Emir Kusturica -
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry -
Anything out there is vulnerable to attack given enough time and resources.
Kevin Mitnick -
Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape.
Peter Marino -
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
Jodi Kantor