Margaret Chan Quotes
For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives, ... It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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(describing Celine Dion's family of 14 siblings) You know there is just issues and boundries and secrets. The name of my book.
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I want to win a world title for sure. When I'm a little bit older, I'll have a lot of time to free-surf in my life. So I would love to win a world title.
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For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives, ... It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.
