Margaret Chan Quotes
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Women are sacred.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I relate to Michael Keaton's character in 'Birdman' so much, how he has that voice being so mean and then another boosting his confidence.
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By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.
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Sports fandom transcends gender, race, language, political preference, socioeconomic status, or any other way you can think of slicing this planet.
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My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
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For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
