Kofi Annan Quotes
Over the past five years, I have often recalled that the United Nations' Charter begins with the words: 'We the peoples.' What is not always recognized is that 'we the peoples' are made up of individuals whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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Comedians' first ten minutes usually stay with them the first several years of their career. It's their mission statement. Their disclaimer that lets people know who they are. Or were. It's also a good time to make fun of your name if you have a funny or strange one.
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When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'
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I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
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Over the past five years, I have often recalled that the United Nations' Charter begins with the words: 'We the peoples.' What is not always recognized is that 'we the peoples' are made up of individuals whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.
