Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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I have a couture body.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
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Everything doesn't have to be perfect, I've realised. You can learn as you go.
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The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.
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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
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in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?