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.
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We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Culture changes with economic development.
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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.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in natural foods, adding up to only about 1000 mg sodium per day.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
