Antonio Guterres (António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres) Quotes

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

Antonio Guterres

• People
• Choices
• Wells
• Manage
• Migration
• Arrivals
• Fleeing
• Deterrence

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  Raekwon
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• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  

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• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

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• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
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• Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Hope
  • Play
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• I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Me
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  • Choose

• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Opinion
  • Will
  • Against

• Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Find
  • Conscious

• I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

  

  Laura Leighton
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• My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.

  

  India de Beaufort
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• The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out. The genius of the Führer and his determination not to shun even a world war have again won victory without the use of force. The hope remains that the incredulous, the weak and the doubters have been converted and will remain that way.

  

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• Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'

  

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• You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.

  

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  • Bad
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• There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

  

  Emma Forrest
  • Life
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• I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.

  

  John Corigliano
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • Choices
  • Wells