When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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“When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.”
— Ban Ki-moon · Closer
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✦ About the Author
✦ More by Ban Ki-moon
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When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
✦ More Closer Quotes
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I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
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Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through.
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It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.
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The universe is fractal. The closer you look at it, the more interesting it becomes.
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There are people I haven't seen for a year and we will do a show or something and when we hang out it'll be this instant endearment. I'm like, 'Our lives, the cosmos, are intersecting, and this will bring us closer together again. I have no doubt.'