Lynsey Addario Quotes

It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aware of the injustices, and you're aware of the civilian casualties. It's much easier if you have no idea and you've never seen it.

Lynsey Addario

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• I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Talk

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Actor
  • Comfort
  • Director

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Guilt

• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Up
  • First
  • Kiss

• In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Persistence

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Man
  • Dragon
  • Button

• I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Time
  • Say
  • Tour

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Freedom
  • Feeling
  • Speak

• 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Important
  • Movie

• It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Dream
  • Confidence
  • Summer

• Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Fear

• Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Silence

• Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

• I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Bad
  • Pretty
  • Challenge

• Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.

  

  Ory Okolloh

• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  

  Jared Polis

• If I wasn't a designer, I would love to be a doctor. That is my fantasy, my dream. A doctor will give you a tablet if you have a headache, and I will give you a dress, and we both make you feel good.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Good
  • Dream

• Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.

  

  T. H. White
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Red

• When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Music
  • Interesting

• It's very hard to turn your back once you're aware of what's going on, and you're aware of the injustices, and you're aware of the civilian casualties. It's much easier if you have no idea and you've never seen it.

  

  Lynsey Addario