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 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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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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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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Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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Secrecy as deep as this is past possibility without nonexistence as well.
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I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
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Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. It's cheaper than plastic surgery.
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A generation of men really built the NFL and gave guys like me a shot, and a lot of these guys are left out in the cold by the league and forgotten.
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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.
