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"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
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"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
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"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
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"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
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"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
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"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."
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"Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!"
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"Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?"
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"There are endless opportunities in life."
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"Explore the endless opportunities in life."
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"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."
People
"In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything."
Media
"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."
Life
"I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad."
Society
"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
Job
"I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China."
Time
"And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early."
Opportunity
"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."
Being
"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."
Politics
"The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me."
Time
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