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Embassy Quotes
Lines on diplomacy, embassies, and the people who staff them.
These quotes cover embassies from several angles, from historic diplomatic honor to the real responsibility of portraying embassy staff in film. Related lines appear in our About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.
- Anecdote
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.
- Arabia
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing remarkable about having media and foreign embassy contacts. When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a journalist, this was a regular occurrence.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
- Compound
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- Nov 07, 2020
I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.
- Bankrupt
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020