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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I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?
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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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I don't sing in the shower at all, and I don't sing in the shower, either.
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In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
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The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.
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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.
