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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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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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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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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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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It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.
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All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
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The voice of one who goes before, to make The paths of June more beautiful, is thine Sweet May!
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The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
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For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
