Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.
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If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
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I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutional change and the modernization of our system of government in the next Parliament.
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I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.
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I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
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Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
