Margaret Chan Quotes

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

Margaret Chan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: chinese
  • Birth: August 21, 1947

Topics

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Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

Anna D. Shapiro

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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

John Philpot Curran

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I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

Tom Holland

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Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

Rory Kinnear

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The night I flew out from Rwanda, I landed in Nairobi, and I was on my way back home, and my left side started to paralyze and remained paralyzed with pain, and the stress and so on began to appear physically.

Romeo Dallaire

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In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was the Russian writers I loved most, and I've spent a substantial amount of time there myself, traveling and on research grants.

Molly Antopol

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If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

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When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?

Josh Fox

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TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

Drew Carey

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Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

Win Butler

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I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.

Winnie Holzman

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