Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong -
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips -
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen -
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula -
I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
Barack Obama -
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Caitlin Doughty -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons -
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
Rachel Perry -
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
Zendaya -
Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten -
When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
Harry Caray -
I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
Nadia Comaneci -
Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
Gale Sayers
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
Vaclav Klaus -
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Alice Miller -
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
Barry Levinson -
From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
Yuvraj Singh -
There are signs that the system of collective security established in San Francisco nearly 50 years ago at the founding of the UN is finally beginning to work as conceived . . . We are on the way to achieving a workable international system.
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