Kofi Annan Quotes

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

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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As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.

Jill Greenberg

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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

John Burroughs

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When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Jeff Hardy

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My wife and I will often have conversations about 'Good Times' and 'The Jeffersons' and 'Sanford and Son.' They were doing incredible stuff that was very funny but also very socially conscious.

Sterling K. Brown

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Tony Robbins

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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

Mary Douglas

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My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

Lucas Till

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I went to college for political science and got a bartending job.

Jon Taffer

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I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

Jon Watts

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I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Dita Von Teese

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We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

Chris Matthews

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I have more ideas than I'll ever be able to write in five lifetimes.

Rick Riordan

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