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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I think America has a brilliant 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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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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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.
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Every person who starts at Boxed does shifts at the fulfillment center. It doesn't matter if you are the general counsel or the COO.
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Sending $300 to your grandma in Cuba doesn't change the dynamic with Castro.
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When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.
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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.
