Kofi Annan Quotes
And thanks to you, Mr Devine, and all your staff, and to the wonderful UNA chapter of Kansas City, for all you have done to make this occasion possible.Kofi Annan
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu -
Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
Nadia Comaneci -
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
Vincent Cassel -
The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
Harold Warner -
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry -
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
Natasha Bedingfield
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
Tate Taylor -
I want to have an impact on my son.
Orlando Bloom -
When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.
Nathan Sawaya -
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
Walt Alston -
When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
Maisie Williams
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
Adam Grant -
I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
Zoe Tapper -
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
Pat Gillick -
We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
Kapil Sibal -
I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
Daniel Craig
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The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
Carol Gilligan -
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
E. Haldeman-Julius -
Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.
Dasha Zhukova -
At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
Kenneth Branagh -
Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
James E. Faust -
And thanks to you, Mr Devine, and all your staff, and to the wonderful UNA chapter of Kansas City, for all you have done to make this occasion possible.
Kofi Annan