Ban Ki-moon Quotes
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
Quotes to Explore
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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My health is fine.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I think everyone should go on my diet. It's called the Fuck It Diet. Basically what it is, is if I want to eat something but it has a lot of fat or carbs, I just take a moment, and I go within, and I say 'Fuck it' and I eat it. You have to do it 6 times a day. It works really well with the Fuck That Shit Exercise Program.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
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I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
