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.
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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.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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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.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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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.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
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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.
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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.
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I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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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.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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The ties between the Obama White House and the hip-hop community are genuine.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
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I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that.
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I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.
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My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.
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I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
