Jan Egeland Quotes

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

Jan Egeland

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• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Team
  • Serving

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • More
  • Difference

• I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Born
  • London

• Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Hungry
  • Bread

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Guy
  • White

• I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Find
  • Lazy
  • Theater

• A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • More
  • Dangerous
  • Lighthouse

• I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Real
  • Want
  • Slavery

• When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Character
  • Morning
  • Voice

• I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • New York
  • Short

• I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Film Set

• The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • House
  • Community
  • White

• I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • Surfing

• I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.

  

  David Muir
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Quality
  • Creating
  • State

• Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.

  

  James Mattis
  • Earth
  • Enemy
  • Mentor

• We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Alone

• I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

  

  Jan Egeland