Kofi Annan Quotes
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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Food can change anything.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
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If we are not free, no one will respect us.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.
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Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.
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If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.
