Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a Republican.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
