Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Something
  • Rich
  • Hip Hop

• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

  

  Valerie June
  • Day
  • Walking
  • Busy

• I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Tolerate

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Professional
  • First
  • Him

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Impossible
  • Conversation

• I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Guy
  • Technology

• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Break
  • Disaster

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
  • Past

• Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

  

  Johann Most
  • May
  • Violence

• I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Unhappy

• The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Essence
  • Uplifting
  • Labour Movement

• Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Law
  • Peace