Jim Yong Kim Quotes

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

Jim Yong Kim

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

  

  Ed Case
  • Support
  • Military
  • Policy

• Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Together
  • Water

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Never

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Community
  • Dad

• Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Feeling
  • Focus
  • Something

• I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Good
  • Success
  • Teacher

• I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Book
  • Never
  • Number

• When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Dark
  • Road

• Screw you, I didn't like your taste anyway, I chose you,That's all gone to waste, It's Saturday, I'll go out and find another you.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Saturday

• I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Tea

• I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Travel

• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Art

• The Beijing government avidly asserts its control over matters of reincarnation as a way of securing the loyalty and political complexion of influential Tibetan figures.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Control
  • Government
  • Loyalty

• I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.

  

  James Lipton
  • Question
  • Decision
  • Gossip

• Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

  

  Frank A. Clark
  • Why

• I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

  

  Jim Yong Kim