Margaret Chan Quotes
Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.

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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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Man, I love being a dad. It's super fun.
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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
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People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.
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Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
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Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.