Jan Egeland Quotes

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

Jan Egeland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorldHelpAttentionResourcesBring

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

John Madden

PeopleWinHellCoachingYouLose

I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

SportsTalkingRacket

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Robert Glasper

PeopleBetterMusiciansYouBad

Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.

Amiri Baraka

SpeakAmericanSpeechFeelingSense

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Robert Winston

GoodChildrenMedicineYouLook

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

Michel Patini

YouKnowThreeViceDaysRole

My father was born on Christmas Day in 1934. He grew up in what is now part of North Korea. When the Korean War began, my father was 16, and he found passage on an American refugee ship,thinking he'd be gone for just a few days, but he never saw his mother or his sister again.

Min Jin Lee

FatherMotherDayWarSisterBorn

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

Joshua Malina

FatherMyselfWifeMeBrainThink

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

Jonathan Levine

ThinkRealityExpectationDirector

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

David Zucker

ThoughtBetterYouKnowNiceActor

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

Chelsea Cain

WritingLearnYouWantLivingWrite

I am an extremely laidback person when it comes to 'looking hot.'

Swara Bhaskar

I AmLookingPersonHotAm

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