Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
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The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
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There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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We are not helpless. We all have the ability to make this world a better place. We can start with small steps, one day at a time.
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
