Margaret Chan Quotes
The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
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'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
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I was introduced to cinema by C-grade films that played in my village, Budhana, in UP. Only films by Dada Kondke, Mahendra Sandhu, and Kanti Shah were available.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good.
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Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.
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People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.
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Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.
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The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play.
