U Thant Quotes
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I never was a very good singer.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.
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Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.
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Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
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The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.
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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
