Madeleine Albright Quotes
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.
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I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
