Winnie Byanyima Quotes

A global tax body would give all countries - not just the rich and powerful - an equal say in how the global rules on taxation are designed.

Winnie Byanyima

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
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  • Birth: January 13, 1959

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Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.

Andre Holland

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Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do.

Meg Rosoff

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Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

Steve Carell

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No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

Steven Pinker

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It's great fun being an academic because you have a certain licence to be a bit of a joker.

Mary Beard

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It's not about the money for me.

Dontrelle Willis

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I think our family motto is to always work hard, be humble, kind, and thoughtful about others around us.

Anwar Hadid

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I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.

Anthony Hopkins

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All this terminology of rankings - forcing rankings along some distribution curve or whatever - we're done with that.

Pierre Nanterme

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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Sylvia Plath

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Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.

Tuppence Middleton

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Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

Richard N. Haass

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