Ban Ki-moon Quotes
I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot.
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Responsibility - moral responsibilities, responsibilities regarding society - these are things that come from the heart.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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You showed me that the real strength comes from learning how to trust again. You make me want to be brave enough to love again.
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I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.
