Jim Yong Kim Quotes
We think it’s extremely important to have lots of feedback and input from civil society organizations. Something broad like, Does democracy lead to growth? - these are very difficult questions to answer. It’s almost academic.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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Young people, especially, are turning away from McDonald's towards healthy, locally-sourced options like Next Door and Sweetgreen.
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The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.
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I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap.
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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
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We think it’s extremely important to have lots of feedback and input from civil society organizations. Something broad like, Does democracy lead to growth? - these are very difficult questions to answer. It’s almost academic.
