Kofi Annan Quotes
Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?Kofi Annan
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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.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
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.
Raf Simons -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Kal Penn -
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
Walter Bagehot
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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.
AJ McLean -
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.
Mahesh Babu -
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence -
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
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.
Ian K. Smith -
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.
Naveen Jain
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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.
Frances Beinecke -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
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!
Gail Simmons -
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo -
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.
Damon Galgut -
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina
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If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
Christine Pelosi -
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.
Peter Mayle -
As a kid, I was growing up in an era of celebration of the Civil War centennial, with a lot of 'Lost Cause' emphasis on the Confederacy. I used to play Civil War soldiers with my brothers as a child, and my older brother always insisted that he got to be Lee, and I got be Grant. I never knew that Grant won until quite some time had passed.
Drew Gilpin Faust -
My father was a World War II Marine who became a high school principal. He always had a heart for students who maybe were underprivileged or had difficulty of some sort.
Lynn Good -
Could you imagine if the U.N. had endorsed the war in Iraq, what our reputation would be like?
Kofi Annan