Kofi Annan Quotes
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
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At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
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It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... that we are not meant to be treated with respect.
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And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.
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All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.
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Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.
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If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction.
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Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.
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Bullies have played a dirty trick to force me out of office by re-drawing my Congressional district to cover a largely rural area of north Florida and include 22 prisons, and convicted felons can't vote.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
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With the advances in technology, it's so easy connecting to our fans. There's Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I try to reach out to them. I try to update them on what's happening in my life, what books I'm reading, or whatever I do.
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We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.
