Ban Ki-moon Quotes
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.Ban Ki-moon
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
Pamela Meyer -
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
Madeleine Albright -
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher -
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
Sally Ride -
I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
Radha Mitchell
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot -
We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
Warren E. Burger -
All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
Dan Webster -
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye West -
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
Zubin Mehta -
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
Pat Robertson
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
Kate Bush -
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
F. Sionil Jose -
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
Taylor Swift
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
Edward Carpenter -
It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'
Jason Dohring -
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
When Warren Buffett invests in a company, he is conferring upon that company something very unique: his credibility.
Bethany McLean -
It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
Jack Gantos -
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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