Kofi Annan Quotes
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.Kofi Annan
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
F. Gary Gray -
In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
Felicia Day -
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
Patricia Marx -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
Aaron Yoo
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
Kate Voegele -
I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
Rachel Nichols -
When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
Ice T -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
Nargis Fakhri -
The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
Zola Jesus
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I have very eclectic tastes.
Carly Fiorina -
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Garth Brooks -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
Gabe Kaplan -
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
Feist -
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
Edie Falco
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The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
Leon Jouhaux -
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman -
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.
William Shakespeare -
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
Kofi Annan