Babatunde Osotimehin Quotes
All girls, all boys must have comprehensive sexuality education, that's really when they can make the choice in their lives.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
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The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
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The audience has a level of control, when you watch 'Invisible,' that nothing in 2D can give you. The overall climax of the series will work no matter how you get there, and the climax of each episode will work no matter how you get there, but no two viewings of an episode will ever be the same.
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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
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I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
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Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.
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All girls, all boys must have comprehensive sexuality education, that's really when they can make the choice in their lives.
