Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.
