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.
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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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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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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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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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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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Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.
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Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.
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I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.
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Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
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Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.
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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.
