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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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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The concept of the public welfare is broad and inclusive ... the values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, aesthetic as well as monetary. It is within the power of the legislature to determine that the community should be beautiful as well as healthy, spacious as well as clean, well balanced as well as carefully patroled.
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Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
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I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.
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Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.
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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.