Margaret Chan Quotes
We must understand that when one country is not safe, the world is not safe. Pandemic influenza, by nature, will go around the world, so it is important for us to work as an international community to get a better handle on the issue.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.
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The greatest mistake is in not being aware that others are Christ. There are very many people who will not discover it until their last day.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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We must understand that when one country is not safe, the world is not safe. Pandemic influenza, by nature, will go around the world, so it is important for us to work as an international community to get a better handle on the issue.
