Lynsey Addario Quotes

I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

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• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Know
  • Airplane
  • Rebuild

• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • You
  • Imagine

• We encourage the growth of women's hockey.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Women
  • Growth
  • Hockey

• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Carry

• When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Joy
  • Hands
  • Got

• How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • World
  • Same

• A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Stock
  • Performance
  • Exploring

• If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

  

  Odette Annable
  • World
  • Women
  • Fight

• Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Same
  • Talk

• I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • God
  • Power

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• Christianity was rising when the ancient world was breaking down. By the time the Church had gained sufficient power to exercise a controlling influence, the process of social decay, like the breakdown of a physical organism in a wasting disease, was beyond remedy.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Power

• The thing is, in the dating profiles it says 'spiritual,' but not with a specific religion. And so I pretty much try to meditate, but I have a very hard time concentrating on things other than me.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Spiritual

• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Universe

• I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Optimistic

• It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Time

• And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Reflection

• I didn't want my gender to determine whether or not I could cover breaking news.

  

  Lynsey Addario