Kofi Annan Quotes
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.Kofi Annan
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Olympia Snowe -
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
Omari Hardwick -
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
Victoria Wood -
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Zadie Smith -
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. Kelly -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
Frances Mayes -
I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
Quincy Jones -
If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
Yogi Berra
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
Samantha Bond -
I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
Nate Parker -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
People want opportunity so they can earn security.
Jack Kemp -
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
Carlos Fuentes -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!
Jesse McCartney -
I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson -
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Zac Goldsmith -
As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
Charlie Ebersol -
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.
Kofi Annan