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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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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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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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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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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I think I've succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.
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I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
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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.
