Ban Ki-moon Quotes
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
-
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
-
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
-
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
-
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
-
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
-
Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
-
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
-
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
-
I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
-
In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
-
I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
-
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
-
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
-
When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.
-
I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
-
War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.
-
I could not make the war seem real for myself. Even though I had heard about the Nazi bombing of cities in Spain, I couldn’t imagine an air attack on unarmed civilians. Remember, there were still horses on the roads of rural Germany at that time. Very few people understood what modern war would be like.
-
When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
