Antonio Guterres (António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres) Quotes
The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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I spent some time in India and thought I might write about Hinduism. But it's so far removed from my experience I couldn't even get my mind around it to write about it.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.
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The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.
