Margaret Chan Quotes
Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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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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Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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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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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.
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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
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We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.
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Time is of the essence. We must act now if we are to have the maximum possible opportunity to contain a pandemic.
