Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
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You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
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When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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When you look back at your body of work, no matter what your career path, by the time you hang 'em up, if you can say, 'This place is in better shape than when I started,' then you did good.
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You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.
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In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
