Ban Ki-moon Quotes
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
Quotes to Explore
-
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
-
All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
-
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
-
I am a very reclusive, private person.
-
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
-
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
-
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
-
I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
-
I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
-
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
-
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
-
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
-
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
-
If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.
-
A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
-
Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
-
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
-
Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
-
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
-
I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.
-
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.
-
Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
-
We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.
-
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
