Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.Martti Ahtisaari
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz -
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant -
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt -
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Octavia Spencer -
From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
Taya Kyle -
Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking -
The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.
Cam -
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
Adam Pally -
Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
Nate Holland -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt -
I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
Nancy Pelosi -
When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
Karen Salmansohn
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You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.
Barack Obama -
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
John Hurt -
My dream is to save women from nature.
Christian Dior -
If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.
Sarah Dessen -
There's hardly any precedent for a guy like me to have the career that I've had. Because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm an in-your-face kind of guy. I developed that as a defense mechanism to survive in the streets. I do that in Hollywood in the service of my passion.
John Singleton -
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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