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.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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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.
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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.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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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.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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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.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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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.
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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!
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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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.
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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.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
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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.
