Madeleine Albright Quotes

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Madeleine Albright

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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

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I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

Robert Pinsky

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I'm not one of these guys who begins the day thinking about what kind of an impact I can have. I instead think about it as what kind of work are we going to do today, how can we make the broadcast better, how can we work as a team, how can we draw on the resources of CBS overall and use them to make the 'Evening News' that much stronger.

Steve Capus

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We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

Sue Monk Kidd

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A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant.

Sonia Rykiel

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I'm aware of my old plays and occasionally think about them, but I'm much more anxious about finding the next play.

Tom Stoppard

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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard

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All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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These parks are our life's work, not the clothing chains we created, selling people clothes they don't need.

Douglas Tompkins

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This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Donald Evans

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You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

Chris Hayes

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