Kofi Annan Quotes

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

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• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.

  

  Iman
  • Culture
  • Never
  • Own

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Real
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• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
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• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Song
  • Own

• It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Attention
  • Difficult
  • More

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Love
  • Popular
  • Dangerous

• The whole market mechanism and its evolution is something that, I'm kind of of the Buffett School. You know, if I see a derivative, I run the other way.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • School
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Difficult
  • View
  • Lightning

• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Successful
  • Grounding

• I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • Family
  • Small

• There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Government
  • Talent
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• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
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• Culture changes with economic development.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Culture

• I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • People
  • Time
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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Really
  • Immortality
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• Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Knowledge
  • Simple
  • Focus

• A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

  

  Bernard Ramm
  • Death
  • Bible
  • Procession

• One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.

  

  Wietse Venema
  • Machine
  • Bug
  • Intrusion

• Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Important
  • Country
  • Children

• Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

  

  Kofi Annan