Lynsey Addario Quotes
As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.
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Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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As a Western woman in the Middle East, I am often put in a different category. I am sort of like the third sex. I am not treated like a man. I am not treated like a woman. I am just treated like a journalist. That is usually really helpful.
