Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007

Topics

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I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

Jenny Eclair

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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Mel Gibson

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Matt Groening

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A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

John Updike

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Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Amisha Patel

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Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

Steve Forbes

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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

Judy Holliday

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It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.

Diana Rigg

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I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

Chris Pratt

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I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Colleen McCullough

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Judi Dench, apart from the name and fame, is the most genuinely hilarious, sophisticated, and loving person I have known. And I mean all of that together at once. That's something.

Ali Fazal

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