Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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Life was treasure. The only treasure.
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Mercury has cast aside The signs of intellectual pride, Freely offers thee the soul: Art thou noble to receive?Canst thou give or take the whole, Nobly promise and believe? Then thou wholly human art, A spotless, radiant, ruby heart, And the golden chain of love Has bound thee to the realm above.
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I don't really sell many records.
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Press bravely onward! - not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it.
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Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.
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When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.
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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.
