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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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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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 know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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I'm a bit of a propagandist.
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The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
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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.
