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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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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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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If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Pop comes from the word 'popular,' which means that it could be anything that appeals to any group of people. When you talk about general masses, I think there's elements in every kind of music that can reach a broad audience.
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This is why people are so hard to understand. I cannot even estimate their gravitational pull.
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The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.
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We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.
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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
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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.
