Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Kid
  • Asthma
  • Sweater

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Control
  • Player
  • Winning

• I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Kitchen

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Place
  • Being

• I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Own
  • Excited
  • My Own

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Hate
  • New York

• I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Song
  • Change
  • Focus

• Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Expectations

• While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Down
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Opinion
  • Moral

• What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Respect
  • Fake

• To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit Born of an ever-generating root...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Flower

• Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses?How soft is this one, how subtle this is,How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is,As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice;How this one clings and how that unclosesFrom bud to flower in the way of roses.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Flower

• The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Bible
  • Thankful

• I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • School
  • Remember
  • College

• What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

  

  Jimmy Chamberlin The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Live
  • Money
  • Band

• Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Men
  • Real
  • Money

• Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Money
  • Rules
  • Bands