Lynsey Addario Quotes
I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
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The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
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Because I know that as successful as I believe we will be, and I believe that the success in Iraq will be fairly easy, we will still lose some American young men or women. And that's a great tragedy.
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You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
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With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.
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I just immediately connect everything to the wars I have been covering overseas, and that's not the case back home. I wrongly assumed all Americans at home were as consumed with our troops in Afghanistan as I was abroad.
