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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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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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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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.
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I think every celebrity that I love wears my shoes. I'm a particular fan of Julianne Moore, and I adore Jennifer Lawrence. There are so many beautiful women. I love Poppy Delevingne, of course; I even made a collection with her.
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My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
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It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
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But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
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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.
