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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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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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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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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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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When I was a kid, I was always dreaming to one day be the No. 1 player in the world, to win Grand Slams.
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Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
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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?
