Lynsey Addario Quotes
Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you can assist a refugee family as they transition to American life. Invite a newly arrived family to your home for a welcoming meal. Listen to their hopes and dreams, and share your own.
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
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If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
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For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
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I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
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I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.
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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
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I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
