Kofi Annan Quotes
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
