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.James Wolfensohn
Quotes to Explore
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Wayne Allard -
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson -
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Samantha Power -
Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
Tariq Ali -
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish
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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.
Ted Cruz -
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey -
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.
Rachel McAdams -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
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.
Aaron Sorkin -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Jack Ma -
I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David -
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.
Pat Buchanan -
President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
Pat Buchanan -
I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
Eddie Cahill -
I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.
Percy Sledge -
I haven't done an international film for a long time.
Sadie Frost -
I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.
Martin Garrix Area21 -
I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He taught me so much about playing quarterback in the NFL and made me a better football player.
Brock Osweiler -
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.
James Wolfensohn