Kofi Annan Quotes
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Of course I get hurt.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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I always loved Hanks in 'Philadelphia' and 'Forrest Gump' and watching how versatile he was. That shaped my impression of what someone was able to do. Of course, everything De Niro came up with was always something I was taken by.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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I had a lot of difficulty growing up in a society where everything is very closed-minded, especially with beauty.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
