Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.

Ban Ki-moon

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ChangeSeaPeaceConflictSmall

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

Jeremy Irons

MoneyWifeFreeYouAskTell

The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization.

Alva Myrdal

PeopleWorldTargetCivilizationNow

I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.

Simon Winchester

DemocracyThinkEnjoyTrueNever

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Tony Parsons

ParentsMeGenerationHouseBring

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Ron Howard

AchievementThinkGeniusTrueAround

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Michelle Bachelet

StereotypesKindLike

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

Joseph Rotblat

ScienceHumanityHarmonyBeingSaw

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett

LifeSmileBirthdayHappinessGift

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Willie Nelson

WorldChoicePlayFirstLovers

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Sebastian Faulks

LifeIdentityBelieveMoreSomething

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

Mark Fuhrman

LifeGoodPeopleMeBadBack

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Mark Kurlansky

TheatreStartedOffPlaywrightMajor

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