Madeleine Albright Quotes
It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
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I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.
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People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
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It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is obviously due to that; not just women's status in the home, but all kinds of laws that are even more discriminating.
