Margaret Chan Quotes
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.
Margaret Chan
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
Tamra Davis
The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
Balthazar Getty
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
Rachael Ray
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
Ina Garten
I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
Xavier Dolan
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Oscar Wilde
I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
Carlene Carter
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln
I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
J. Michael Bishop
Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
Cam Gigandet
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber
I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
Taylor Phinney
In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Zainab Salbi
Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
Gautama Buddha
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
Francesca Annis
Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
Walker Percy
We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.
Margaret Chan
