Kofi Annan Quotes
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
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I have this necklace I always wear. I collect pendants from people I love; my best friends and members of my family have all given me one, and I put them on this chain so no matter where I am they're always with me.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
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I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
