Federica Mogherini Quotes
Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I wish that people could understand that people need to laugh. They need to sing. They need to create their own joie de vivre.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.
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We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
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Only the mad girls chase me, I think.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
