Lynsey Addario Quotes
I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes.
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Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.
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Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the term. It was where I came from, what I really understood, the base against which all else was measured.
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America is the greatest country in the whole world.
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You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.
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Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.
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I didn't know a single female photographer who covered conflict who even had a boyfriend, much less a husband or a baby.
