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Kofi Annan Quotes

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Walk Me Someone Situation Sometimes

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

People Prison Think I Can Street

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage Eyes Wife Laughter People

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Women Play Stereotypes Kinds Get

I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

Michael Eric Dyson

Music Identity Black Think Tradition

I'm more interested in life than life-style. Life-style means you have to drive a certain car.

Stephanie Zimbalist

Life Car Drive You More Means

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

Music People Song Boring Hip-Hop

We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media.

Women History Media Powerful Forget

Chadaris, as far as I'm concerned, I think should be a personal choice of the women and the members of her family. I personally would not wear a chadari.

Family Women Think Choice Personal

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

Michele Bachmann

Constitution Will Judges Bench See

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

Reading You Bad Find Say Want

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

Birthday Time Parents Doing Copy Up

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

Children Make A Difference Say Want

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