Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

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• Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• Actors make less than you think.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
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• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
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• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
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• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
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• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
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• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
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• We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
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• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.

  

  Mallory Jansen
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• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
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• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see...

  

  Angus Young

• No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.

  

  Aldous Huxley
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• You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

  

  Chuck Yeager
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• What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

  

  Lucille Clifton
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• Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
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