Madeleine Albright Quotes
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
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A great deal of her obscurity and cant, Tenar had begun to realize, was mere ineptness with words and ideas. Nobody had ever taught her to think consecutively. Nobody had ever listened to what she said. All that was expected, all that was wanted of her was muddle, mystery, mumbling. She was a witchwoman. She had nothing to do with clear meaning.
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The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
