Kofi Annan Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
C. S. Forester -
I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
Jack Nicklaus -
I never left doo wop.
Aaron Neville -
I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
Garrett Hedlund -
The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz -
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
Sade Adu
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti -
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
Rafael Nadal -
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie -
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
Lamar Alexander -
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly -
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
Kara Swisher
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
Magnus Carlsen -
And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
Patricia Heaton -
Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
Babyface -
Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
Pamela Meyer -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
You're only as good as your last haircut.
Fran Lebowitz
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
Padma Lakshmi -
We accept that there are legitimate casus belli: acts or situations 'provoking or justifying war'. The present debate feels off-centre, and faintly unreal, because the US and the UK are going to war for a new set of reasons (partly undisclosed) while continuing to adduce the old set of reasons (which in this case do not cohere or even overlap).
Martin Amis -
Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips -
All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
Kangana Ranaut -
Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore de Balzac -
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan