Navi Pillay (Navanethem "Navi" Pillay) Quotes
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
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If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.
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I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
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The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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It's scary to imagine yourself failing. But I do know that in Bollywood, every Friday changes your destiny, and unfortunately, every Friday also changes the way people look at you.
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Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.
