Quotes
Authors
Nicholas D. Kristof

"American airstrikes...create risks, especially if our intelligence there is rusty. The crucial step, and the one we should apply diplomatic pressure to try to achieve, is for Maliki to step back and share power with Sunnis while accepting decentralization of government. If Maliki does all that, it may still be possible to save Iraq. Without that, airstrikes would be a further waste in a land in which we've already squandered far, far too much."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

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“I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?”
“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.”
“The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.”
“New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.”

Source : "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
“if anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they're sadly mistaken.”
“Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.”
“You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.”
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.”

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