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"Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"A full mind is unlucky if a good idea comes to enter inside, an empty mind is unlucky if a bad idea comes to enter inside!"
"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."
"A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!"
"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"
"Don't ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The moment you realize that you are going to the wrong direction, turn to the right direction instantly, with a beautiful U-turn!"
"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"
"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"
"It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!"
"Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!"
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"Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information."
"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."
"But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight."
"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
"And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever."
"I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences."
"A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life."
"For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army."
"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd."
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