James Wolfensohn Quotes

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

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• I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Eye
  • Glasses

• The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Plant
  • Celebration

• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Care
  • Poetry

• My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • House
  • Grandfather

• Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Today
  • Movies
  • See

• I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the kinds of stories I'm passionate about telling.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • People
  • Grateful
  • Working Hard

• I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.

  

  Saskia de Brauw
  • People
  • Man
  • Feminine

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • Good
  • Food

• Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

  

  Annalee Newitz
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Focus

• We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • People
  • World
  • Today