Jim Yong Kim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
-
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
-
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
-
I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
-
We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
-
A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
-
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
-
Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
-
Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
-
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
-
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
-
It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
-
You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
-
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.
-
I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
-
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
-
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
-
Many people could benefit from meditation.
