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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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 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'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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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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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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I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Ramses II. The statue needs some restoration and weighs between four and five tons.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.
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You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.
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I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.
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I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'This is so groundbreaking... this is going to change the landscape,' but I don't see that result at all. When we saw some female studio executives, we were hopeful that more women would be hired as directors, but that didn't really seem to happen.
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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.
