Top 46 Kantor And Kantor Quotes
#1. I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.
Jodi Kantor
#2. Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
Jodi Kantor
#3. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.
Melissa Kantor
#4. I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.
Melissa Kantor
#5. Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
Jodi Kantor
#6. [W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.
Melissa Kantor
#7. You two look like salt and pepper shakers. That's what my mom use to say when we both had long hair. You're a couple of salt and pepper shakers. And now here I was, just a stupid lonely pepper shaker. What was the point of a pepper shaker without a salt shaker? I didn't even like pepper.
Melissa Kantor
#8. Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
#9. If I was going to do something, I wanted to give my life over to it, to love it, to wake up in the morning for it like I had for dance.
Melissa Kantor
#10. Why take the risk? Surely somebody would invent a crystal ball to tell you whether or not a relationship would work out before it started.
Melissa Kantor
#11. This is the worst thing that will ever happen, I thought, and as I stared into Olivia's enormous green eyes, I knew she was thinking the same thing. This is the worst thing that will happen to us in our entire lives.
Melissa Kantor
#12. I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
Jodi Kantor
#13. In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.
Jodi Kantor
#14. Looking back at that conversation, I can't help wondering: Did I know? Did I know what was coming, and did I think that as long as I wouldn't let Livvie say the words, they wouldn't be true?
Melissa Kantor
#15. You were sleeping?" said Princess One.
"No," I said. "Sometimes I just like to lie in the dark for hours with my eyes closed.
Melissa Kantor
#16. People never think things that are true are funny.
Melissa Kantor
#18. There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.
Melissa Kantor
#19. Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?
Melissa Kantor
#20. Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped.
Melissa Kantor
#21. Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.
Melissa Kantor
#22. After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?
Melissa Kantor
#23. Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.
Melissa Kantor
#24. Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.
Melissa Kantor
#25. Be honest, Do I give off a vibe that says 'No, handsome stud, I don't want you to make a pass at me,' while at the same time communicating, 'Hello there, acne-ridden dwarf. Promise me we'll meet again.
Melissa Kantor
#26. There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.
Andrew Kantor
#27. I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns ... my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.
Melissa Kantor
#28. For years, every moment I wasn't dancing was a moment I was waiting to dance.
Melissa Kantor
#30. Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.
Melissa Kantor
#31. And a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.
Melissa Kantor
#32. Prince Charming was requesting my presence tonight.
Melissa Kantor
#33. There is nothing that makes the unbearable bearable.
Melissa Kantor
#34. One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every day, collecting signatures and supervising the other people who did. If you were supposed to get 300 signatures and you only got 299, you had to face the wrath of Michelle.
Jodi Kantor
#35. People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
Jodi Kantor
#36. There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.
Melissa Kantor
#37. Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'
Jodi Kantor
#38. Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
Jodi Kantor
#39. Nothing.
That's what happens to the stepmother in Cinderella.
Nothing.
Melissa Kantor
#40. What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club?
Melissa Kantor
#41. Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.
Melissa Kantor
#42. Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
Jodi Kantor
#43. And then I thought that it wasn't fair that at seventeen you could make choices that you might regret for the rest of your life because you really had no idea what you were doing and the stakes were just too high.
Melissa Kantor
#44. It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.
Tadeusz Kantor
#45. Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady ... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing.
Jodi Kantor
#46. Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.
Melissa Kantor
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