Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

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• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mistake
  • Place
  • First

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Words
  • Nothing
  • Equal

• The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Purpose
  • Slavery

• Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Choices
  • Attitude
  • Interference

• Space is very unforgiving business.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Business
  • Space
  • Unforgiving

• I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • World
  • Illusion

• Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Enough

• I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Knowledge

• I've been an athlete most of my life and on a disciplined schedule. Working out for me is just part of my every day.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Athlete
  • Schedule

• Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pray
  • Produce
  • Explanation

• If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Up
  • Person
  • Dead

• You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Anonymity

• You never have to guess where you stand with me.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Guess

• I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

  

  George Washington
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Laughing

• Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Doe
  • Crisis
  • Missiles

• I didn't want to be behind a desk. I didn't want to do a normal job. I had made my mind up. I became despondent prematurely. I had my mid-life crisis when I was 16. I suppose I'd agree with that. But acting has helped me develop a lot in my private life.

  

  Will Poulter
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Crisis

• When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Crisis
  • Arise