Kofi Annan Quotes

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

Kofi Annan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodEatingEnvironmentInsects

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

Jenny Holzer

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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.

Andrea Hirata

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If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

Angela Rye

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My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Simon Cowell

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One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

Rob Manuel

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I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

Romeo Santos

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Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's children are not as patient. The best example of this is 'The Secret Garden,' which I adored as a child.

Lois Lowry

MotherTodayChildrenBestChild

Either you fight for everybody, or you're really just fighting for yourself and people like you.

Jason Winston George

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I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

Jonathan Van Ness

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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Jon Meacham

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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Douglas Haig

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It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Christine Gregoire

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