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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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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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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I was on a strict diet to stay in shape for 'Jack Reacher,' but each day on set in New Orleans, catering dropped off delicious food at my trailer.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
