Yaroslav Trofimov Quotes
I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.
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There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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I was afraid to express myself for a while.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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I think in Baghdad, any westerner, journalist or not, has a big dollar sign on his or her forehead. So, first and foremost, you are a ticket to unimaginable wealth. And that makes any trips out of the safe zones very risky.
