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
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

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

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • 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
  • People
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  • Great

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

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

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 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
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Strong
  • Fighting

• 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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  • Girl

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

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• 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
  • People
  • Up
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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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  • Speak

• 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
  • People
  • Sometimes
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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
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

  

  Wendie Malick
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  • Life
  • Change

• So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
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• I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

  

  Beverley Nichols
  • Wife
  • Taken
  • Cutting

• There is nothing destroyed by sanctification but that which would destroy us.

  

  William Jenkyn
  • Christian
  • Blessing
  • Destroyed

• I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.

  

  Steven Bauer
  • Opinion
  • Critics
  • Perceptions

• 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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  • World