Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

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• If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

  

  Federica Montseny
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• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

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• I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

  

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• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

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• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
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• I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Life
  • Country
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• I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

  

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• I applied to drama school when I was about 18 and didn't have any luck anywhere. They basically turned me away and said I had a bit of growing up to do. I went back to Aberystwyth and did my growing up by spending eight months working in Peacocks.

  

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• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Love
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• Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Rain

• 'The bread of the stranger is bitter,' says Dante, 'and his staircase hard to climb.' But who can know what the bitterness of dependence is so well as the poor companion of an old lady of quality?

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Quality
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• I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.

  

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• I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

  

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• Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

  

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  • Individual
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• Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

  

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• In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

  

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  • Truth
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• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

  

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  • Men
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• For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Terrible

• In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Past
  • Modern
  • Terrible