Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
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It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.
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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
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In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
