Ban Ki-moon Quotes
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.
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In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
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Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
