Kofi Annan Quotes
Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
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When we're young, we notice things that are young, like ourselves. New grass on old graves. New leaves on old trees
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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.
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Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?
