Elizabeth Kenny Quotes
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.
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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
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I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
