Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I am always happiest in an ensemble.
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Blockchain technology has such a wide range of transformational use cases, from recreating the plumbing of Wall Street to creating financial sovereignty in the farthest regions of the world.
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My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
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My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.
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When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.
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Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.
