Lynsey Addario Quotes

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Sweet
  • Wine
  • Butter

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Something
  • Michael

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I don't feel closeted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Feel

• I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Love
  • Stop
  • Wish

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Girl
  • Comedy
  • Care

• If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Drama

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Women
  • Live
  • Country

• I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought...

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Power
  • Windows
  • Users

• The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • Beginning
  • Important Part

• Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care of your fellow citizens when they're down on their luck, you end up killing economic progress. But what European experience actually demonstrates is the opposite: social justice and progress can go hand in hand.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Care
  • Economy
  • Citizens

• Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Life
  • Work