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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If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
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It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!
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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.
