Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes
Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.
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Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.
