Madeleine Albright Quotes
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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I don't like possessions.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.
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I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
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I used to practice piano for hours, and now, with a synthesizer, you can input the music and the machine perfects the song. That's why we have so many people in the music business who should be plumbers. They don't really understand music because they haven't been trained.
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I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
