Diplomats Quotes - Page 5

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  Vikas Swarup

  Jobs, Writing, Weekend

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• Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Accomplishment, Intellectual

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.

  Margaret Thatcher

  New Beginnings, New Relationship, Would Be

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.

  George Takei

  Reality, Thinking, Space

  Source: progressive.org

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• And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Thinking, Doctors, Hair

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• Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Issues, Unions, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  New York, Editors, Saws

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

  David Brin

  Fighting, Needs, March

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• I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.

  Gloria Estefan

  College, Records, Study

  "Wake Up with Whoopi", October 13, 2006.

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• I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Soldier, Youth

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Country, World Issues, Roles

  "Pope Francis Applauded For Message On Poverty At U.N". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

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• I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

  John Gimlette

  Cities, Sometimes, Mets

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

  F. Paul Wilson

  World, Harmony, Finest

  F. Paul Wilson (2011). “The Tomb”, p.261, Macmillan

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• Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Actors, Lovers, Timing

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.

  Greg Kinnear

  Brother, Father, Spring

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• The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Telling The Truth, Sensitive, Organs

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.251, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Jobs, Father, Pakistan

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• We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.

  Shirley Temple

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country that we had back-to-back African-American Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and then me. I also thought it said a lot about President Bush that he didn't see limits on the highest ranking diplomat in terms of color. It's a hard job, but really the best one in government.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

  Arabella Weir

  Dad, America, Cairo

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• Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  France, England, Influence

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Real, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.161, Penguin

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• Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

  David Cunliffe

  Politician

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• He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

  Hooman Majd

  Taken, Escaping, Paris

  Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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