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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Spend a while listening to people in your district to make sure you understand how they are served well in government and how they could be served better.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.
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If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
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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.
