Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.Ryszard Kapuscinski
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes -
We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
Saku Koivu -
I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
Nancy Reagan -
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
Taylor Wilson -
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
P. J. O'Rourke
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver -
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
Nancy Sinatra -
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
Vince Staples -
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Karl Popper -
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
Fernando Pessoa
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My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity-of the wonder of innumerable forms of life-has always thrilled me beyond anything else.
Oliver Sacks -
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
Larry Niven -
I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.
Neil Patrick Harris -
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
Paul Wolfowitz -
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.
Jeff Bingaman
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I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
Billie Eilish -
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings -
What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.
Donna Reed -
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, 'Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone'.
Francis Bacon -
The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.
Javier Solana -
The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.
Ryszard Kapuscinski