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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I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.
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I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'
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People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
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But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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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.
