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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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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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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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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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
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My whole life is my work.
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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
