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Hans Rosling Quotes

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

Hans Rosling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: swedish
Birth: July 27, 1948 - February 7, 2017

Topics

Challenge World Society Dangerous

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

John Catsimatidis

Respect Moon Saying End Dream Go

I have a few go-to moves like jazz hands, shake the booty, stupid eyes. It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.

John Cho

Smile Eyes Stupid Looking Hands Now

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

John L. Lewis

Life Government Free America Alien

I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.

John Lithgow

Great Fight Fun Enough You Actor

I never was after money. It never attracted me.

Shimon Peres

Money Me Never Attracted After

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

Ruth Ozeki

You Write Paper Whole Costs Much

I had that laser focus, identified what I wanted when I was a kid, and never let anything get in my way. If you look on paper at who I am and what I sound like, and what I look like, you wouldn't say, 'Go into broadcasting.' It's just what I wanted to do - I knew that I could do it, and I never let anyone tell me that I couldn't.

Ross Mathews

Focus I Am Me You Look Go

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Luc de Clapiers

Success Sometimes Extraordinary Most

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

Christoph Waltz

Hate Bad Improvisation Very

A lot of effort and money are - rightly - expended keeping the president physically safe. But it's up to the president to maintain a schedule that allows for refueling, so as to be physically and cognitively at his or her best at all times. That's what it means to be strong, tough, and truly fit for the highest office.

Arianna Huffington

Best Money Be Strong Effort Strong

Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.

Winona LaDuke

Path Time Fire People Green Choice

I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

Phil Klay

War Puzzle Confused Way Try Through