Kimberley Nixon Quotes

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

Kimberley Nixon

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• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Integrity

• My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Fashion

• Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Long
  • Forever
  • DNA

• The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Family
  • Want
  • Religious

• I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • People
  • Family
  • Experience

• I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Tough

• To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Justice
  • Person
  • Corporation

• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Trying
  • Living
  • Biology

• We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • Way
  • Law
  • Stay

• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • May
  • Problem
  • Lies

• The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Only
  • Cure
  • Contempt

• Because what it turns out is, is that if a - the best way for a country to reduce its debt is to grow really fast, and to generate more income.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country

• Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I didn't know it was such a guy's job. It's like playing football in high heels and lipstick; no wonder it smears.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Job
  • High
  • Guy

• Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money

• Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Opinion

• There are so many places I have visited which are unusual, but the ones my family and I tend to always go back to are those in Europe, particularly France and Italy.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Family

• I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Hate
  • Loses

• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Football

• I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

  

  Kimberley Nixon