Ban Ki-moon Quotes
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Quotes to Explore
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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The next thing which surprised us very much, is that both for Julia sets and even more so for the Mandelbrot set, the complication was not, how to say, arbitrary, and almost everybody found the impression that these shapes were hauntingly beautiful. These shapes resulted from the most ridiculous transformation, z
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, 'Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?' You just can't get stressed about the little things 'cause it's just not worth it at the end of the day.
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So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when it comes to the Middle East, and especially the Arab world, simply depicting people as human beings is the most political thing you can do.
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Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.
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I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
