Jim Yong Kim Quotes
If we can unlock the full potential of the World Bank Group staff, I think we can have an even more transformational impact in country after country in the world.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.
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Quite a few people feel uncomfortable when faced with the claim that the Jews are the world's smartest people. In our politically correct era, one is not expected to argue that one group within humanity has an advantage over all the others.
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With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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If we can unlock the full potential of the World Bank Group staff, I think we can have an even more transformational impact in country after country in the world.
