Jan Egeland Quotes

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Jan Egeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: September 12, 1957

Topics

PeopleNeedPopulationOnlyThird

Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

John Dean

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My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around. And my dad was a huge fan of Ray Harryhausen. One of our neighbors, who went on to win several Academy Awards, was close friends with my dad. His name is Phil Tippett.

Robert Stromberg

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Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

Matt Damon

TodayDayWorldYouRulesYesterday

What, exactly, did Sjahrir do for the Republic? ... His entire underground effort can be summed up by saying that he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio.

Sukarno

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Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

Tom Tancredo

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Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Tom Brokaw

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The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

Roger Spottiswoode

PeopleLawDieYouBadNow

I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.

Martine McCutcheon

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Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'

Dick Dale

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We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.

Donna Brazile

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