Madeleine Albright Quotes

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

  

  Carl Safina
  • School
  • High
  • Running

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Run
  • Fast
  • Slow

• Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Acting

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • Want
  • Feel Good

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Write
  • Had
  • Them

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• It would be fine with me to have myself worked out of a job, but I'm not sure that - I'm not sure that there will be a champion movement in Congress to do that.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Job
  • Champion

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Women
  • Father

• And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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