Babatunde Osotimehin Quotes
The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!

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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.
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I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.
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The choices that women make have huge impact on families, on communities and on nations. Being able to provide an enabling environment for them to exercise their rights and make choices in their lives is crucial. It is at the heart of human development!