James Wolfensohn Quotes
So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
