Jim Yong Kim Quotes
One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
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Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
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New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly, but Chicago is a much harder and more brazen city.
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I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.
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One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
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One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.
