Jim Yong Kim Quotes
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
Quotes to Explore
-
A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
-
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
-
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
-
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
-
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
-
In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.
-
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
-
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
-
My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
-
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
-
I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
-
Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
-
What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
-
VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
-
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - also Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. And bands like Vampire Weekend.
-
In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
-
Live a life less ordinary.
-
I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.
-
I do love giving advice, but I try not to forget how flawed I am as well. And how many mistakes I've made.
-
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
