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
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I've never been one to run from a challenge.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Challenge
  • Run
  • Been

• 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
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• 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
  • Writing
  • True
  • Break

• The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Success
  • Bored

• 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
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Life
  • Business
  • Learning

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • New
  • Circumstances
  • Course

• When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Never
  • Basketball
  • Grew

• Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Science
  • Attention

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Impact

• 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
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• 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
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• 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
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Mind
  • Persons
  • Journalist

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Together
  • Challenge
  • Farmer

• All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Experience
  • Audience
  • Playing

• In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

  

  Nicholas Donabet Kristof
  • Care
  • Talking
  • Human Right