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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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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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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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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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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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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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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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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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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I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
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People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry.
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I was very interested in that. It is very important to have confidence as well as to build up experience.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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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.
