"When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen."

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Source : "10 years after SARS outbreak, WHO boss shares lessons learned". Interview with Helen Branswell, toronto.ctvnews.ca. March 5, 2013.

Margaret Chan

#Ideas Quotes #Disease Quotes #Emerging Quotes

“I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.”
“Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.”
“I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.”

Source : "Up-tight: the Velvet Underground story". Book by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga, 2002.
“In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.”
“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”

Source : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
“When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com
“A job is not just a job.Â Itâ€™s who you are.”

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