Noeleen Heyzer Quotes
Increasingly, the battlefields are fought on women's backs, and it is done not just to humiliate them, but to humiliate their men, too.
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.
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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
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I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.
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We derive confidence as women from what we wear.
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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Increasingly, the battlefields are fought on women's backs, and it is done not just to humiliate them, but to humiliate their men, too.
