Kofi Annan Quotes

When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that is a secretariat led by the secretary general, and we have a U.N. made up of member states who give us our mandate.

Kofi Annan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he would look like he was flying, I suppose. It was just natural to draw him like that.

Joe Shuster

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Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

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Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

Robert Gottlieb

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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Jeff Nichols

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I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.

John Updike

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If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.

Rush Limbaugh

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I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.

Mona Simpson

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I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.

Louise Wilson

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When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.

Deb Caletti

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I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

Colum McCann

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Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

Christina Milian

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When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Boris Spassky

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