Madeleine Albright Quotes
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
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Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
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People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school with me!
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
