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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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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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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I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
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I want to continually find ways to bring my ideas off the stage and into the real world, into the streets. I think I can make the world a better place, if only for a little while.
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Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.
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My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.
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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.
