Jan Egeland Quotes
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
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I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do.
