Margaret Chan Quotes
We have a window of opportunity to prevent a pandemic or at least delay the spread of a pandemic.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.
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'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.
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We have a window of opportunity to prevent a pandemic or at least delay the spread of a pandemic.
