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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The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
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Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
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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?
