Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.
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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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I have the same skin-care routine morning and night, although I'm not one of those people who always uses the same products. My skin changes with the weather.
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In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
