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Richard Holbrooke Quotes

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

Richard Holbrooke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: April 24, 1941 - December 13, 2010

Topics

Organization Need United Nations

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan

Writing World You Serious Plumbing

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

Ann Rule

People Mind Opinions You Try Open

When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.

Jeff Van Gundy

Myself Humor Man Team Look Bad

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

People Destiny Suffer Haiti

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

Jean Giraud

Story First Magazine Started Sold

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Johnny Carson

Funny Nothing Kid Naive Barn Used

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

Stanley Hauerwas

I Am People Think Church America Go

Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale.

Rita Moreno

Mother Women Silly Over Bigger Just

The young women waking up to feminism now already wake up to more consciousness than my generation had. Even just simple things like equal pay - before you went, in my generation, and asked for a raise, you went through nausea and your palms sweating.

Robin Morgan

Women Simple Wake Up Generation You

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

Louis Theroux

Routine Dream Way Always Film Just

People say, 'I'm only suing for the principle of the thing,' and I reply that I can't give you principle - only money.

Joseph Wapner

Money People You Say People Say

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

Josh Gordon

Good Mistakes I Am Good Person Will