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
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai
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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
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole
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We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
David Hockney
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What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.
John Lurie
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He stayed very well inside of what we're trying to do.
Phil Jackson
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Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!
Doug Davidson
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I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
Pierce Brosnan
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People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
Jodi Kantor
