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Richard N. Haass Quotes

American presidents get to make lots of choices, with one critical exception: what awaits them in the in-box on top of the desk in the Oval Office.

Richard N. Haass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: diplomat
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1951

Topics

Choices American Desk Top Office

The first entry into modeling doesn't build your confidence. They pull out the tape measure and pick you apart. I'm a curvy woman, so I was definitely told I was 'too curvy.'

Confidence Woman You Measure Build

A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.

Johnathan Joseph

Challenge Face Back Down Go Never

I went to high school in Virginia Beach, Va., and we had these guys - they were surfers. They didn't like me, never talked to me. And if they didn't like you, they threw toothpicks at you. After I did a play, it was different. I found out I was pretty good at something.

Good Beach School Me High School

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Reflection Hat People Way Head Wear

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Adversity Habit Looking Back Looking

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Me Accomplishment Think Feel Ladder

The hardest part about acting is realizing it doesn't matter.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Acting Matter Hardest Part About

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.'

Jordan Peterson

Women Organization Think You Look

I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

Love Ride Vegas You Back Down

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Time Place Right Time Lucky Right

Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.

Live World Just Like Lives

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Walk Me World Black Lost Personal

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