Kofi Annan Quotes

Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Constitution

• If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Want
  • You
  • Handle

• For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Woman
  • Feel
  • Scientist

• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Children
  • Man

• I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Problems

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Choices
  • Media

• I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Think
  • Very

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Fun

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • View
  • Networking
  • Far Away

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • World
  • Eye
  • Journey

• I didn't see that at all. I just saw everyone having a good time and everyone having fun [on set of Romeo + Juliet]. I didn't see anyone having any spats or disagreements. If they did, they hid it very well. But as far as I saw, it was a positive vibe. It was positive energy.

  

  Quindon Tarver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Bed
  • Vocabulary

• Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Energy
  • Growth