Ban Ki-moon Quotes
The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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When I'm at home, I just run all the time, you know; I get up, and I go pretty much four days a week outdoors. I go in the canyons around L.A., Malibu - just around L.A. there's a lot of different spots.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
