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All Quotes Collection
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
103
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
Want,
163
"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."
168
"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."
184
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
94
"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."
160
"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
206
"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
226
"Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation."
191
"In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda."
161
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
70
"We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face."
205
"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."
235
"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
219
"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
41
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
Film,
152
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
45
"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
43
"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
42
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
48
"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
34
"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
41
"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
70
"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."
48
"God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender."
45
"Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound."
46
"TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program."
52
"I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money."
39
"Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone."
53
"Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work."
64
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
60
"What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold."
75
"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived."
66
"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school."
38
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