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.Ban Ki-moon
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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.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Warren Ellis -
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.
Ramez Naam -
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.
Katha Pollitt -
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
Samantha Power
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
G. Willow Wilson -
From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
Namie Amuro -
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.
Karin Slaughter -
You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
Tavi Gevinson
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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.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston -
The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
Adam Draper -
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.
Naomi Klein -
People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
Naftali Bennett -
I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
Laura Mvula
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Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
Charlie Trotter -
Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
Wendy E. Long -
I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
Damian Lewis -
The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.
W. S. Merwin -
I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.
Keith Sweat -
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon