Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Magic

• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Age
  • Night

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Intellectual

• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
  • Physical

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Up
  • Dad

• Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Long
  • Learning

• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Ideas
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.

  

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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