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“Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.”

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Author:John Lyly

“The best ambassador is a warship.”

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Author:Michelle J. Howard

“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.”

“By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed... They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.”

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Author:Bob Burg

“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.”

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Author:Rebel Wilson

“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”

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Author:Anastas Mikoyan

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

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“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.”

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Author:Ann Veneman

“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.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“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.”

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Author:Dikembe Mutombo

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

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Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“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.”

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Author:Lindsey Vonn

“I know at first hand how the impact of being bullied as a teenager can quite literally last a lifetime and I thought that if we could involve well known ISPCC ambassadors perhaps people will think twice about bullying or indeed allowing bullying to happen.”

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Author:Mark Feehily

“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopédie. I think it will produce considerable good even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people, that their redemption from them can never be hoped.”

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“I am flatly opposed to appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican. Whatever advantages it might have in Rome - and I'm not convinced of these - they would be more than offset by the divisive effect at home.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.”

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Author:Chris Sharma

“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.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.”

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Author:Jack Hanna

“It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.”

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Author:Ambrose

“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.'”

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Author:Bob Burg

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

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“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.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Kimball

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

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“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.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

“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.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“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.”

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Author:Sylvia Poggioli

“Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“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.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.”

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Book:Don't Waste Your Life

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“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.”

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Author:Mark Webber

“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.”

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Author:Lilly Singh

“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.”

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Author:John Sheridan

“There is nothing like the sound of a Welsh Male Choir and the Treorchy is the finest. They have represented the best of the Welsh voice for generations with honour and integrity. They are international ambassadors.”

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Author:Tom Jones

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

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Author:Emily Gould

“I feel that Orphei Drängar are among Sweden's foremost ambassadors. It's always a delight to hear the drängar, both abroad and at home.”

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Author:Jan Eliasson

“I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.”

“I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"”

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Author:Gary Myers

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

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Book:The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.”

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Author:Joichi Ito

“We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.”

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Author:James Augustus St. John

“I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

“There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.”

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Author:Matthew Healy

“Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.”

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.”

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Author:John Galliano