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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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.
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Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.
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My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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.
