Kofi Annan Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
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To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.
