Babatunde Osotimehin Quotes

The health and rights of women and adolescents should not be treated like an afterthought in humanitarian response, for the pregnant woman who is about to deliver, or the adolescent girl who survived sexual violence, life-saving services are as vital as water, food and shelter.

Babatunde Osotimehin

• Women
• Rights
• Services
• Adolescents
• Life-Saving

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• I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Amazing
  • Special
  • Behind

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Book

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Start
  • Does

• Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Things
  • Suffer
  • Eat

• Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Love
  • War
  • Stop

• I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Religious

• I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Singing
  • Walking
  • Down

• I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Taxes
  • Sharing

• I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Know

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Free
  • Never

• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop any discipline.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Evil

• ... I just know that, right now, … the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Business
  • Rock

• Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

  

  Aldous Huxley

• There's a new children's book that's coming out that features Sarah Palin as a hero. I don't want to give away the ending, but we finally find out who shot Bambi's mother.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Children
  • Book
  • Mother

• In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer admitted that there isn't a shred of conclusive proof that Christ ever lived, let alone was the son of God. He concludes that one must therefore accept both on faith. I reject both for the same reason.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • God
  • Done
  • Book

• Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Feed

• The health and rights of women and adolescents should not be treated like an afterthought in humanitarian response, for the pregnant woman who is about to deliver, or the adolescent girl who survived sexual violence, life-saving services are as vital as water, food and shelter.

  

  Babatunde Osotimehin
  • Women
  • Rights
  • Services