Madeleine Albright Quotes
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
Quotes to Explore
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.
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When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
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I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
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You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
