Jim Yong Kim Quotes

A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.

  

  Kate Bush
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• I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Years
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• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
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• We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
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• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
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• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
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  • Machines
  • Smoke

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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  • Want
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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
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• Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'

  

  Edgar Wright
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• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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  • Church
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• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
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• To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Dream

• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Children
  • Night
  • Earth

• I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

  

  Brendan Coyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.

  

  Ruston Kelly
  • World
  • Sense
  • Songwriting

• I really do just try to tune as much out as I can and make things that I think just sound good to me.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
  • Things
  • Make
  • Tune

• A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

  

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