Millennium Quotes

• ...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims.

  Kemal Dervis

  Time, Goal, Promise

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• The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

  Primo Levi

  Country, Believe, Science

  1985 Other People's Trades,'News from the Sky' (translated by Raymond Rosenthal,1989).

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• There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, Anxiety, Get Better

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• The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

  Donatella Versace

  Men, Liberated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

  John Malkovich

  Inspired, Appearance, Bohemian

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• World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Military, Gdp, Goal

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• Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

  Kofi Annan

  Dream, Relief, Debt

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• In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

  Jonathan Larson

  Community, World, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day of God; but not that we should check any human effort by anticipations of its approach. We shall hasten it best by endeavoring to work out the tasks that are appointed for us here; and, therefore, reasoning as if the world were to continue under its existing dispensation, and the powers which have just been granted to us were to be continued through myriads of future ages.

  John Ruskin

  Lying, Work Out, Effort

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.167

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• My colleagues and I took a stand in our work several years ago that we would not look for the magic bullet, because there is none. These are just basic problems requiring basic work. Nothing magic about it.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Goal, Magic

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• The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.

  Eveline Herfkens

  People, Goal, Development

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• I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.

  Carl Sagan

  Song, Years, Worry

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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• If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

  Thoraya Obaid

  Thinking, Political Will, Goal

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• Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

  Carl Lewis

  Race, Goal, Finals

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• Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Sexy, Mean, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

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• Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Beautiful, Stupid, Simple

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• A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Numbers, People, Experience

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• The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

  Sting

  Matter, Worried, Irrational

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• This is the Bond of the new millennium. Everything is updated, from the action sequences to the interaction between the characters. All the elements reflect changes that have occurred in the world in recent years.

  Rick Yune

  Character, Years, Elements

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

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• I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.

  Todd English

  Giving, House, Trying

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• Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

  Joan Jett

  New Year, Couple, Years

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• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  Harri Holkeri

  Giving, United Nations, Summit

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