James Wolfensohn Quotes

China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.

James Wolfensohn

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• To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Development
  • Ignore
  • Product

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • California
  • Alien
  • Immigrants

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Long
  • Love

• But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Unique

• The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Heart
  • New
  • New York

• CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Real
  • Car
  • Doing

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Time
  • Financial
  • Economics

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Playing

• I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

  Gail Devers
  • God
  • Day
  • Best

• If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Son
  • Cat
  • Pictures

• I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • World
  • Love
  • Science

• The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Done
  • Reading

• How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Country
  • Money
  • Broken

• I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.

  

  Libby Trickett
  • Time
  • Different

• I have a voice: I want to share my beliefs about how the conservative movement and the Republican party can regain its footing, because we've lost our way.

  

  Jeb Bush
  • Lost
  • Party

• You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

  

  Knut Hamsun
  • Art
  • Forest

• China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • Money