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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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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In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.
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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
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We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.
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My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
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When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.
