Ban Ki-moon Quotes
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Quotes to Explore
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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If you fail to pay your minimums for any debt on time, your credit score will take a major hit and you run the risk of seeing the interest rate on all of your cards go up. An easy way to remind yourself to pay, is to sign up to receive your statements via e-mail.
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My dream collaboration would be Elvis.
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Chaucer followed Nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
