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.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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  • Women
  • Guns

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
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  • Down
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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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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  • Up

• 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.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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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.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
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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.

  

  M.I.A.
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• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
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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.

  

  Orson Welles
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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.

  

  G-Eazy
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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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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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.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Karl Urban
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• Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

  

  Plato
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• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Regardless of whether it is playing for your school team or playing for Manchester United, winning is great.

  

  Alan Smith
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  • Team

• Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.

  

  Fat Joe
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• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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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?

  

  Kofi Annan
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