James Wolfensohn Quotes
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'
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You cannot afford a world with slavery, which literally takes someone and turns them into a machine.
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
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I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community.
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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
