Kofi Annan Quotes
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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I try to call the play as quickly as I possibly can and then shut up and let the crowd roar because, to me, the crowd is the most wonderful thing in the whole world when it's making noise.
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I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
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More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
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American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
