Jodi Kantor Quotes
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.Jodi Kantor
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder -
I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan -
It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
Warren Ellis
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
Vince Staples -
I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
Larry Holmes -
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
Victoria Pendleton -
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
Taylor Negron
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot -
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison -
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter -
What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
Fat Joe -
It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
Caitlyn Jenner -
I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
Cameron Diaz
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Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.
Randy Alcorn -
There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.
Anthony Swofford -
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Christopher Lasch -
You can't change history. These things happened the way they did. What you can change is how you look at it and how you understand that it takes the good moments and it takes the difficult moments to move forward.
Margot Lee Shetterly -
We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.
Stevie Wonder -
Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. And yet, examining the first couple's relationship - their negotiations of public and private life, of conflicts and compromises - offers hints about Barack Obama the president, not just Barack Obama the husband.
Jodi Kantor