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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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
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The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
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In Western Europe, anti-Semitism directed against Arabs has largely replaced Anti-Semitism against Jews
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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
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In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The lesson wasn't that sports couldn't coexist with education; it was that sports had nothing to do with education.
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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.
