Peter Maurer Quotes
Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.Peter Maurer
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
Mallory Jansen -
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel Gompers -
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell -
As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
Edmund Phelps -
Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
Damon Runyon
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
Aarti Sequeira -
Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
Manny Montana -
I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.
Barry Jenkins -
I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
T. J. Miller -
My mom told me a long time ago, 'Never get in a fight with a lady.'
Oliver North -
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Ted Danson
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
Warren Farrell -
The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That's my truth.
Lady Gaga -
Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
Nazanin Boniadi -
As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt -
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
Samantha Power
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Xavier Becerra -
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.
Madchen Amick -
It makes great conversation to discuss what's wrong with open-wheel racing today.
Mario Andretti -
Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world
Virchand Gandhi -
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
Malcolm X -
Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.
Peter Maurer