Lynsey Addario Quotes
Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few hunters and gatherers to become more sedentary agriculture-based civilizations, which then moved us to the current populated modern era.
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I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.
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The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.
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Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
