Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
Saffron Aldridge
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
Patrick Swayze
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
Ferdinand Mount
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
Cara Delevingne
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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
Madeleine L'Engle
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I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty
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I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.
Larry Hagman
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Ina Garten
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
William Goldman
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The upside potential was so high—you could get a good payday with just one thirty-two-bar hit song—and the barrier to entry so low. Anyone could offer his wares—that is, anyone who could handle the indignity of knocking on door after door and being summarily rejected time and again.
Ben Yagoda
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
Karlie Kloss
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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
T. S. Eliot
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
Henry Rollins
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In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
