Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
Quotes to Explore
-
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
-
The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
-
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
-
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
-
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
-
In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
-
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
-
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
-
I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
-
I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
-
I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
-
I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
-
The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
-
I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
-
When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
-
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
-
I like to stretch my acting muscles.
-
Twitter was around communication and visualizing what was happening in the world in real-time. Square was allowing everyone to accept the form of payment people have in their pocket today, which is a credit card.
-
I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.
-
I think he’s a pervert. It’s dangerous to allow him on the convention floor.
-
Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.
-
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
-
I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
-
For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
