Lynsey Addario Quotes
As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.
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Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.
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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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As a photographer who is constantly in violent, bloody situations where the instinct is to turn away, I am always trying to figure out how to make people not turn away.
