#only

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#embrace #great #only #own #sense

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#first time #good #only #out #play

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#cold #cold war #commit #crimes #domination

Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#after #arrived #conditions #correspondence #europe

I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#been #came #captains #could #different

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#attentive #high #knowledge #only #people

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#disabled #give #group #hand #happy

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#any #associate #conducted #exploit #ghraib

This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#damage #did #fischer #fuss #image