Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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I definitely want to work in Hindi films.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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Companies can't delegate social media to the new college grad and think they have it covered.
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I like new challenges.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.
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It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Providing all Latin-American children with the education and early childhood development that they need is in the best interest of all, so it has to be a priority for all of us, not only the government and civil society, but also the business sector.
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I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.
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Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.
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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
