Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.
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Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.
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I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion.
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I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.
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The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'
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In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.
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We always set out to just make a great movie.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
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As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
