Kimberley Nixon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
-
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
-
To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
-
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
-
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.
-
The only cure for contempt is counter-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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
-
Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
-
I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
-
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
-
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
-
I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.
-
Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
-
I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.
