Kofi Annan Quotes
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
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I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
