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.
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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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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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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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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
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War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war.
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A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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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.
