Madeleine Albright Quotes
Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
-
Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
-
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
-
I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
-
For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
-
I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
-
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
-
I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
-
While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
-
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
-
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
-
I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
-
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
-
The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
-
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
-
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
-
It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.
-
I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
-
I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
-
Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.
-
L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.
-
Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they keep them as property. It isn't that women can't find work. It's just that women don't get paid for their work and are not recognized properly. It's something that has to be on the international agenda all the time.
