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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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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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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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 believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
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People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
