Margaret Chan Quotes
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
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We hope that others will also commit to giving generously and starting young.
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Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
