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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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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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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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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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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We all have a stake in ensuring that all students have the schools they deserve and that communities are leading this effort, not being left behind. To do that, we must challenge unchecked charter expansion and the forces driving it.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?
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I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can.
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Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.
