Madeleine Albright Quotes
I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
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The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
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I do consider myself a feminist. I know the word has weird implications for people now, but I do think that its important to have women involved, whether its business or public service or...anything.
