Kofi Annan Quotes
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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Florida is an awesome place to find sweaters. People buy a really nice sweater for their trips up north, then they just keep it in the closet forever, so you're finding super nice sweaters down here at the Salvation Army. It's hard to say no sometimes.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
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I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
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What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.
