Hans Blix Quotes
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
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One of the downsides of the job is that I am travelling so much, and I don't have so much time to go out and socialise as people who have a more traditional job might do, so it's hard.
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My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.
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Most people look better with their clothes ON, and those ten people who don't look better than you, so why bother.
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A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery. Employers would rather not hire a lot of workers from the inner city. They feel people from the inner city are not job-ready, that the kids have been poorly educated, that they can't read, they can't write, they can't speak.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
