Kofi Annan Quotes

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

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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You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

Jimmy Napes

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It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

John Barrasso

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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

John Knowles

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I was always taught that you needed to be intense and never lose your focus.

John McEnroe

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There's a rhythm and a cadence in a scene, and when an actor understands without any real direction from you, then that's a very valuable gift. And some people get it, and some people don't.

Jeff Nichols

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In superficial terms, to have an orchestral career is to be better than others, or at least to be chosen over others on that particular occasion; it is a form of survival.

Stephen Hough

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Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Stephen Ambrose

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I do not wish harm on our constituents.

Tom Graves

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Fewer jobs, at lower pay. That's what Obamacare means.

Robert Zubrin

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Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

Michael Mosley

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If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

Cindy Crawford

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I'm not made to be a mother.

Brigitte Bardot

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