Margaret Chan Quotes
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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When you work with a band, obviously you've got to present them with something they can get a hold of, so it has to be a little more fleshed out as a song. And then where it goes is more collaborative, obviously; it's more political possibly, certainly more a conscious process than a subconscious process, which the painting can be.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
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Nobody, no family, is above the law.
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Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.
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Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are exemplary and greatly facilitate the work and daily life of WHO employees.
