Noeleen Heyzer Quotes
The designation of a goodwill ambassador is reserved for exceptional individuals who are committed to using their visibility for positive change. We are honored to have Nicole join the UNIFEM family.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I had no idea about nutrition. I thought by eating salads you'll stay skinny.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I really want to help stop violence toward women.
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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
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The designation of a goodwill ambassador is reserved for exceptional individuals who are committed to using their visibility for positive change. We are honored to have Nicole join the UNIFEM family.
