"Music is something I must do, business is……" — Gro Harlem Brundtland
"Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life."
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49 Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland
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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
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An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
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Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
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Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year,…
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This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head…
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With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
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In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control…
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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities,…
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A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
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The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and…
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The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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