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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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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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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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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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
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I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
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You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.
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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.
