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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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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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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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Environmental agencies in China are hamstrung by local officials who put economic growth ahead of environmental protection; even the courts are beholden to local officials, and they are not open to environmental litigation.
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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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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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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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If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
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We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
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Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
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Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.
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I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class of people, and for whom life is quite comfortable, I've created discomfort. So I take that as a badge of honor.
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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.
