Ban Ki-moon Quotes
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
Quotes to Explore
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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My songs are about who I am.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
