Noeleen Heyzer Quotes
Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
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If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.
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Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go.
