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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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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Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità , ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.
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No one can be Gilda twenty-four hours a day.
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It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. It was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying. It's been just over a year and a half now. I'm really enjoying it and hopefully it will continue for a fair bit into the future.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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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.
