#diplomat

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#became #because #between #came #community

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#been #compromised #diplomatic #initiatives #interested

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#comply #diplomatic #doing #effort #exhausted

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#been #cabinet #diplomat #effected #find

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#diplomatic #truths #unpleasant #unpleasant truths #wearing

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#boarding #britain #diplomat #expected #fact

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#diplomat #diplomatic #early #father #learn

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage. ↗

— John Zorn

#being #diplomatic #ends #i #i can

A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#days #diplomat #down #head #nothing

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. ↗

— Carey Williams

#including #languages #must #number #order