Kofi Annan Quotes

In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

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• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Try
  • Will

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Work
  • Never
  • Scared

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • World
  • Couple
  • Thought

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Important
  • Power
  • Today

• When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• You have to grow. I can't be the same person I was at 18; otherwise, I'd be stagnant.

  

  Katrina Kaif

• Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

  

  Konrad Lorenz

• I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Kids
  • Career

• In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • World
  • Today