Diplomat Quote by Lulu Wang

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.

— Vladimir Nabokov

While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important formative role model. He was comfortable…

— Muhtar Kent

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

— Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied…

— Adnan Sami

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish…

— Cheech Marin

“The word 'NO' is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.”

— A.K. Kuykendall

“When the world says “no” it means a “yes”.”

— Sumedha Mahajan

“Just remember that every “yes” is actually a “no” to something else.”

— Hank Reardon

a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at…

— Margery Wilson

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You don't have to say yes to everything, you know. It's okay to say no.”

— Janet Gurtler

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

— Asha Rangappa