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Kofi Annan Quotes

We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Face Choose Profit Human Driven

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs.

Positive Love World Go Want Reggae

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

Love Freedom Style Want Box I Love

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'

Good Storm Me Desert Rich Thought

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Love Mirror Myself Words Suffering

My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.

Good Mother Me Luck Good Luck Karma

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

Art Culture Society Believe Relevant

My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.

Children Great Best Beach Day Go

Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

Best Thought Said Test True Never

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

Young Being Teenager Associated

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Great Time Me Energy Face Think

Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.

Mitch McConnell

History Great Struggle Conflict Down

I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

Hate Me Language Better Golf Bad

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