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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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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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.
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It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.
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Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.
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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.
