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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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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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've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
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My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
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In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and 'The Observer' is just that: an observer. It is about truth.
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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.
