Maurice Strong Quotes
I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
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You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.
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At the end of the day, the government, local government all bow to public pressure.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
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I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others... name me ten equally big, iconic Wonder Woman stories. Much harder. That ain't the character's fault, that isn't sexism, that's just not servicing the character.
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Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.
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I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.
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Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
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Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.
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I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." He believes in you.
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I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.
