Kofi Annan Quotes
When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
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Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
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Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
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Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.
