Jim Yong Kim Quotes
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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.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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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.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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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.
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I'm not a violent person.
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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.
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
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I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it.
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When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.
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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.
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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!
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Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
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I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
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You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.
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It's such a frustration when you see in the name of religion, in the name of God, what people are doing is something we never expected. The religion has to be Spirit-oriented, but it is only power-oriented or money-oriented. In the original scriptures, or we can say in the origin of this religion was the truth. And all these religions bloom on the same play of spirituality like beautiful flowers at different times, but people have plucked it and now they are fighting with the dead flowers.
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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
