Madeleine Albright Quotes
The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I love creative people.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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The thing I like to do most is shop.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?
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When I was a naive young recruit in Spain, I used to wonder why soldiers bayoneted oil paintings, shot the noses off statues and defecated into grand pianos. I now understand: it was to teach civilians the deepest sort of respect for men in uniform - uncontrollable fear.
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.
