Kofi Annan Quotes
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
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Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.
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I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
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A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
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The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
