Margaret Chan Quotes
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
Quotes to Explore
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.
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I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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The only way to 'find out if it will work out' is to do it.
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New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
