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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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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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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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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We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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I definitely feel like my blog is going edgy to broad and boring.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
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Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.
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We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.
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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.
