Jim Yong Kim Quotes
Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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As we consume more than ever, climate change is accelerating as well. In fact, we know that 2014 was the hottest year in human history. These pressures combine to create real threats to security and stability around the world.
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It's a powerful thing to be able to write a song. Even the least powerful feeling - like insecurity - that makes you feel weak when you experience it, when you write about it, you are powerful.
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I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
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We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
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Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
