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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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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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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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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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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Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
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On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.
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I think trying to be flashy and doing things that are out of your realm of comfort is the problem with the Divas.
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Life ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
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If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.
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I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
