Christiane Amanpour Quotes
And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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I never got a stereo system until about 1969. It was only when I went to America in '68 and listened to FM radio; I really thought, 'Wow, there's something in this.'
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I grew up in Cleveland, so my heart got attached at a young age to the freight train of sadness that is Cleveland sports.
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I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
