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 leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
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Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them.
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.
