Kofi Annan Quotes
On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
Kofi Annan
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
Gary Johnson
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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.
Edgar Wright
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
Naveen Jain
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
Kate Winslet
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
Irwin Thomas
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.
Henry St. John
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
Jonathan Sacks
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
Kate Walsh
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'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
Edward Abbey
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Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
Rebecca Eaton
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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
Kofi Annan
