Kofi Annan Quotes
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.Kofi Annan
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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.
Oren Peli -
Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Cam Newton -
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Maisie Williams
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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.
Salman Rushdie -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
F. L. Lucas -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
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.
Orville Wright -
Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
Xavier Dolan
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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.
Rami Malek -
I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
Randeep Hooda -
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
Yogi Berra -
I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
Gary Bauer -
Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.
Carl Olson -
Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
Basmah bint Saud -
I do love to get my nails done.
Cynthia Erivo -
I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
Gary Lineker -
Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan