Peter Maurer Quotes
Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.Peter Maurer
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Age for me is just a number.
Haile Gebrselassie -
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson -
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
Zara Phillips -
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson -
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
Damien Chazelle
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg -
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Maisie Williams -
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben -
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James -
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
Eric Lynn Wright -
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
Salman Rushdie
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin -
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith -
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
Vijay Kumar -
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
Edgar Winter -
I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
Lana Parrilla
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
Rachel Nichols -
I consider myself just as normal as anybody else.
Brody Jenner -
Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
Jeff Sessions -
Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
Peter Maurer