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Who Runs Your World? Saturday 17 September to Monday 3 October on ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service
Opinions - who's got the power?
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ asked people across the globe who runs their world. This is what they had to say.
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Carlos Alberto Parriera, Coach of Brazilian national football team
"For me, it is very clear: the strongest people [are those who make up] the G7. When they get together, the decisions they make … can change the world – for worse or for better."
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Kevin Bales, President of Free The Slaves, American sister organisation of Anti-Slavery International
"The 27 million people in slavery around the world, because those are the people I work for. Because we are a human rights organisation, we spend a lot of time dancing around the edges of power.
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"I'm constantly trying to go to powerful people, people with money and political power and so forth, and ask them to help us bring an end to slavery worldwide. So I keep rubbing shoulders with power but never getting any of my own."
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Rosa Jimenez Rodriguez, disabled musician from Mexico
"I make my own decisions. People like me, who are born with a disability, are born fighting."
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Former British Foreign Secretary Lord (Douglas) Hurd
"We live in a country that freely elects its own Government, and it is that Government which is the dominant force, bigger than the forces of capitalism and big business and bigger than trade unions.
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"I look back over my life and remember times when the freedom to run my own world has been at risk: from Hitler, from the Communist threat and, to some extent, now from terrorists."
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Argentinean striker Hernan Crespo, who plays for Chelsea
"My family – they have had the biggest impact on my life because of everything they have taught me since I was a boy."
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Shirin Ebadi, lawyer, human rights activist and Iran's first Nobel Peace Prize winner
"If we think others run our world – for example if we think the US runs the world because it is a superpower, or Britain because it has technology, or if we think some German philosopher has predicated the future – we do nothing to shape our own world, [which] means escaping from taking on responsibility.
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"We hold the future in our own hands. Maybe we don't get what we want 100 per cent, but it is important to be on the path that we want to be."
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Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister
"One shouldn't have any doubts as to who runs the world. It's women, of course. It's obvious, because all the important things in life are done either because of women or thanks to them."
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Helena Bonham-Carter, actor
"Professionally, my world's run by the directors and producers who make films and who are effectively my employers. But they have to rely on trends in fashion and, ultimately, on the audiences who watch the films.
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"I'd also mention the writer because the script and role is invariably what inspires me to act in the first place.
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"At a personal level, I'd like to say I run my world, but I think it's shared with my partner, Tim Burton – though he calls me The Chief."
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Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, the world's largest corporation
"I've worked for General Electric for 23 years and the people who rule my world are investors and customers. We're the most broadly held stock in the world and we're nothing if we don't satisfy customers both today and in the future."
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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda
"Well, in the office, my staff run my world and, in the house, my wife runs my world. I don't feel I run much myself. I think I make an input in terms of concepts."
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