Ban Ki-moon Quotes
I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
Quotes to Explore
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.
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My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.
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In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
