Kofi Annan Quotes
Thank you, Senator Hagel for that wonderful introduction. It is a great honour to be introduced by such a distinguished legislator.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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I love my sleep.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
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There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.
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Thank you, Senator Hagel for that wonderful introduction. It is a great honour to be introduced by such a distinguished legislator.
