Kofi Annan Quotes
He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
Federica Mogherini
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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
Damien Hirst
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
Laura Wade
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I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
Victoria Aveyard
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
Karen Handel
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
Gary Bettman
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.
Ieva Laguna
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
Abigail Disney
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
Tea Leoni
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When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
Jackie Earle Haley
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
Iris Chang
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I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.
Lamar Odom
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
Eartha Kitt
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In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
Barack Obama
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
V. S. Pritchett
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Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington
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It made me feel cooler in real life to know I could be The Rock's daughter.
Alexandra Daddario
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Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!
Dale Carnegie
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I love Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox's real-life relationship.
Jessica St. Clair
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I saw the discrimination that was happening towards Middle Easterners, Muslims and other brown people who had nothing to do with 9/11. It suddenly felt like a duty of mine to talk about some of the crazy things that were going on and make fun of how stupid it was.
Maz Jobrani
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He is very calm-very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.
Kofi Annan