Brian Urquhart Quotes
No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.
Brian Urquhart
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
Abby Wambach
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
Becki Newton
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
Mahmoud Abbas
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
Francesca Annis
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
Harold Brodkey
I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
Vera Farmiga
For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
Oren Peli
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional professions. Economic and political power will be determined less by a country's size than by its technological superiority.
Klaus Schwab
You know the only rule you need to know to get on in this country? ‘Never complain, never explain.
Amanda Craig
We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
Orison Swett Marden
When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.
Pele
No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.
Brian Urquhart
