Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
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We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.
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Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs.
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Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.
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Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,While resignation gently slopes the way;And, all his prospects brightening to the last,His heaven commences ere the world be past.
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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
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Our Heavenly Father does bless us when we show our love for Him in all things.
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I hope I'm exactly what America is looking for, I don't know, I'm just going to be myself and hope that they love it. That's all I can do.
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Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
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I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.
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When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.
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A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
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I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then 'Spring Awakening' happened, and it took that rock n' roll and pop music to change gears for me.
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
