Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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Jim Udinski has been coaching in the league for the past fourteen years, and his Division II team, the Lenape Valley Indians from suburban Philadelphia, has already made history - twice.
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Like so much of President Obama's decisions over the past six years, this is another photo-op with a compliant press that does not matter and will do little.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
