Kofi Annan Quotes

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Kofi Annan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: ghanaian
  • Birth: April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018

Topics

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I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

Jennifer Garner

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Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?

Robert Kennedy

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The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'

Tristram Stuart

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The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

Michiel Huisman

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A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

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A lot of times, when you record something, the album becomes less about the music and more technical.

Lou Barlow

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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

Johnny Rivers

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I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Connie Smith

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I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again.

Colin Firth

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You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.

Poo Bear

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I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth

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