Peter Maurer Quotes

The relatively unpredictable flow of funds to humanitarian organizations, and the bureaucratic strings often attached to them, can have a highly negative impact on an organization's ability to plan and execute programmes effectively. We need to be able to rely on predictable income flows to plan sustainable programmes.

Peter Maurer

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I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.

Joe Morton

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When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LiveSpeakLanguageFeelYouSecret

I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.

Melissa Fumero

EnoughKnowSureWouldHip

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

John Lydon

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Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

John Hodgman

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It doesn't matter which court I'm on.

Angelique Kerber

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This epidemic of student demands for 'safe places' to protect against threatening words and ideas would make a great science fiction film, but unbelievably, events seem to be outpacing the political imagination.

Tom Tancredo

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The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Robert Fisk

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'Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies' is a comedy. It was fun. You just don't take it serious. You just go there, get your popcorn, and sit down.

Roddy Piper

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I was never involved in arms trading. In the Russian Federation, arms trading is the prerogative of the state.

Roman Abramovich

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For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.

Mike D

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My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

Mike Mills

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