Madeleine Albright Quotes
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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At a certain point, a critical mass of people either have used the Internet or have expectations. Anything less than the free flow of information will be seen as having something taken away. We've seen time and again - in Egypt and Iran, for example - that creates a backlash.
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The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
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Only the mad girls chase me, I think.
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I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
