Jim Yong Kim Quotes
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My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.
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The reputation of Britain in the Arab World is at an all time low.
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I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
