James Wolfensohn Quotes
I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.
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I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
