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• An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.

  Shelley Berkley

  People, Discrimination, John Paul Ii

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• In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

  Jack Valenti

  Voice, Hollywood, Giants

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Europe, Germany, France

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• Whether meeting with leaders and parents concerned about drugs in Bonn, Lisbon, or with the Holy Father at the Vatican, or doing a pretty fair flamenco in Madrid, I think Nancy's one of the best ambassadors America's ever had.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Thinking, America

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• It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Nba, Organization, Easy

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• I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Climbing

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• Yog is not only about Rog Mukti but also Bhog Mukti. Yoga can be our cultural ambassador. We can reach out to the world through this medium.

  Narendra Modi

  Yoga, India, World

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• Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world.

  Ann Veneman

  Humility, Focus, Empathy

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• Red Bull are backing a spinal-injury research charity called Wings For Life, which I am an ambassador for, with a programme called Faces for Charity that will run at this year's British Grand Prix.

  Mark Webber

  Running, Years, Wings

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• I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

  Lilly Singh

  Racism, Want, Enough

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.

  John Sheridan

  Army, Light, Darkness

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• I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

  Ellie Goulding

  Proud, Skinny, Realizing

  "Ellie Goulding: A Melody Of Movement". news.nike.com. January 26, 2015.

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• An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

  Xenocrates

  Country, Study, Welfare

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• The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hurt, Party, Arrogance

  "Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Britain, Greater

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• Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Want, Pay

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• I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Government, People

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has mandated that as drivers, we are very committed to fitness.

  Charlie Kimball

  Athlete, Racing, Elements

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• Politics in Bolivia must combine social consciousness with professional competency. In my administration, intellectuals from the upper class can be cabinet ministers or ambassadors, as can members of Indian ethnic groups.

  Evo Morales

  Class, Groups, Bolivia

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• Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great - I'm taking myself as a character - for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm
  not so good with high society, in either North or South America, because I'm highly unconventional. Perhaps I bewilder people by being at once the esthete, the intellectual and the
  vulgarian.

  Orson Welles

  Character, Men, America

  "Orson Welles on Latin America" by Chan Norris, PM, p. 17, September 13, 1942.

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• Does he or she know you, like you, and trust you? Does he want to see you succeed? Does she want to help you find new business? If so, then you have yourself a 'Personal Walking Ambassador.'

  Bob Burg

  Doe, Want, Succeed

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• The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Pride, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.359, Penguin

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• Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

  John C. Reilly

  Artist, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.esquire.com

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