Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
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As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
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Character is long-standing habit.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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People don't like the same thing. You have to keep their attention.
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You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
