Madeleine Albright Quotes
I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.
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I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.
