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Ban Ki-moon Quotes

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: leader
Nationality: south korean
Birth: June 13, 1944

Topics

Women Business Children Together Sky

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

Chance Debt Question Everyone Answer

How Americans restore trust may be an existential question for their country, then, but it's ultimately a practical one: What U.S. society needs to answer it in the coming years aren't lamentations but practical measures, especially among the emerging generations that will define America's future.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Future Trust Society America Country

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

People Feel Defend Most I Feel Part

Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.

Michael Morpurgo

Ideas Silly You Down Write Always

I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid.

Career Never Kid Broadcasting Even

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

Day People Me Night Kind Understand

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Friend Chance Restaurant Go True

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

Christina Ricci

Good Think Enough Kind Mean Singer

Oh, the dilemma of the summer music festival. On one hand, we ladies try very hard to look cute walking around those muddy fields in our cowboy boots and cut-offs. On the other hand, we want to look like we really didn't try at all and just rolled out of bed looking this way.

Music Cute Looking Walking Boots

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Power People Thinking Way Up Give

I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

If I am practicing on the wire, and you pushed me, I would not move, and if you take a piece of wood and beat me up on the shoulder and the head, I would not move. You would not put me out of balance. You would not be able to. I am solid as granite when I am on the tight rope, and I should be.

Balance I Am Me You Wood Shoulder

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