Madeleine Albright Quotes
The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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I just think that it's very helpful to have a map of your psyche, because when you have a map, you know where to go.
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In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.
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The reason I made women's issues central to American foreign policy, was not because I was a feminist, but because we know that societies are more stable if women are politically and economically empowered.
