Madeleine Albright Quotes
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Let us have peace.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
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What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose.
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The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
