Madeleine Albright Quotes

There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Same

• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Needs

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Violence
  • Jail

• I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Believe
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Attention
  • Body
  • Count

• I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • People
  • Musician
  • Appreciate

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Always
  • Effort
  • Try

• I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Passion

• Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Football
  • Group
  • Leg

• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Interest
  • Lie
  • National

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Space

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Different
  • Body
  • Unique

• It doesn't hurt me on a personal level, but it hurts me on a larger level of like, why are people so stupid? Why do we have to go through these unnecessary exercises. Fight crime, don't fight me. If you really want to make a difference don't fight me or Fugazi.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Want
  • Purpose
  • Foreign Policy

• This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Dream
  • Kiss
  • Supposed

• There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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  • Clinton
  • Eleanor