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.Jim Yong Kim
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
Felix Baumgartner -
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
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.
Naval Ravikant -
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.
Maika Monroe -
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
Karin Slaughter -
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Zooey Deschanel
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
Dan Rosensweig -
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.
Eden Robinson -
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.'
Nathan Fillion -
Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
Cameron Winklevoss -
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.
Daniel Cormier -
It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
Dan O'Brien
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Adam Grant -
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
Kat Edmonson -
I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
Rafael dos Anjos
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
Lying can never save us from another lie.
Vaclav Havel -
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
Rachel Cusk -
Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
James Bovard -
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Jim Yong Kim