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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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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I think that people can relate to family. There is a person that watches the show because they want to see what I am going to create. There is a person that watches the show because they want to see my family.
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Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death.
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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
