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• Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Government, Israel, Order

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• When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace.

  James O'Dea

  Shoes, Empathy, Depth

  James O'Dea (2012). “Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st Century Peace Ambassador”, p.67, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

  Arthur Miller

  Mistake, Men, Thumbs

  Arthur Miller (2015). “The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

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• I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

  Tewodros II

  Games, Firsts, Traders

  Quoted in Basil Davidson, Africa in Modern History: The Search for a New Society (1978)

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• More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Abortion, Today

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• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  Vijay Mallya

  Stars, Film, Brands

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• God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

  Quentin Crisp

  Age, Territory, Said

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 16, 1968.

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• The best ambassador is a warship.

  Michelle J. Howard

  Foreign Policy, Policy, Warships

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• Lord, I'm available to be your ambassador and if there is someone you would like me to speak with today you can bring that person across my path.

  Vonette Bright

  Today, Path, Speak

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• As a Goodwill Ambassador for YouthAIDS, I've learned that the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female. By educating young people and empowering them to make the right choices we can stop the spread of HIV/AIDS

  Ashley Judd

  People, Choices, Empowering

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• I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this "glass" of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Growing Up, Father, Glasses

  Source: time.com

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• Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Russia, Ukraine, Liberty

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.

  Narendra Modi

  Kids, Empowerment, India

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• I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Jobs, Thinking, Land

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• I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

  Emily Gould

  Thinking, People, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Opportunity, Issues, Voice

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• EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Exile

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Team, Decision, Needs

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• It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

  Ken Livingstone

  Nice, Trying, Crooks

  "U.S.A. Is No. 1, on London List of Traffic Fees" by Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. May 02, 2006.

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• It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

  Larry Crabb

  Understanding, Needs, Awareness

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• Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Lying, Men

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• I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

  India.Arie

  Power, Opportunity, People

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• Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Responsibility, Ozone, Effort

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.

  Allen West

  Angel, Eagles, Visits You

  "Allen West Would Invoke ‘Angel Of Death’ At UN, He Says" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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