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.

Madeleine Albright

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• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Habit
  • Gym
  • Shopping

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• 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.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• My son's a West Point cadet.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Son
  • Point
  • West

• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Mine

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• 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.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Hope
  • Will
  • Go

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Encouragement

• 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.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Different
  • Night
  • Girlfriend

• It was one of the occasions when Lymond asleep wrecked the peace of mind of more people than Lymond awake.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • People
  • Mind
  • Peace

• When I think about whether I want to take a job, I don't just think about whether it's technically interesting, although I do consider that. I also consider the question of whether it's good for the world.

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Jobs

• 'Sabotage' was an opportunity. That was journeyman work, but the irony is I learned more off that movie on what filmmaking is and isn't than everything else combined. A lot of lessons, and it will impact me for the rest of my career.

  

  David Ayer
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • World
  • Freedom