Ban Ki-moon Quotes

I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.

Ban Ki-moon

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When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed.

Jennifer Aniston

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I'm a paranoid person. I really am.

John McAfee

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Our society demands that women be treated equally and that we not discriminate against them.

John McCain

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I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It's the only place I'm completely alone - up in the air, detached from everything.

Angelina Jolie

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A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

Jeff Buckley

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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Rosanne Cash

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Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

Roland Martin

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I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

Ruby Dee

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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Loretta Lynn

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When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door, you don't really tend to spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go down to the market, so it's really not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel like I'm ahead of myself.

Julia Roberts

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I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

Chris Gethard

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I went to culinary school to eat.

Christina Tosi

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