Jim Yong Kim Quotes
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.Jim Yong Kim
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
Rafael Palmeiro -
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano -
I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
Queen Latifah -
Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
Wally Schirra -
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
Caleb Johnson -
I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
Maika Monroe
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
Victoria Osteen -
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
Rainn Wilson -
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom -
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
Iman -
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
Hannah Simone -
St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.
Angelina Jolie -
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
Jim Yong Kim