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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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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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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The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.
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Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.
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After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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You remember where you were doing each scene. 'Oh my God, it was so hot that day.' It's kind of cool to see a movie that you haven't seen in a long time and reflect on that stuff.
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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.
