Madeleine Albright Quotes

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Madeleine Albright

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Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.

John Battelle

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While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it.

Jennifer Bini Taylor

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tony Snow

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It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Tom Selleck

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ECW fans were original. They were part of the show. They were a big part of the show, and other fans in other towns in other countries would imitate the fans that were on ECW television.

Rob Van Dam

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People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

Rory Bremner

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When you choose the hard things, it takes longer than you think to get it done, and if you choose the hard thing and have a very particular way you want to do them and are uncompromising in that, then sometimes it takes even longer.

Dee Rees

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Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources.

David Suzuki

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If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.

Ciara

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The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

Winnie Holzman

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Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

William McKinley

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