Jim Yong Kim Quotes
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I like to discover new things.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
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As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.
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I was desperate enough to agree
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In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
