Jim Yong Kim Quotes
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.Jim Yong Kim
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
Zendaya -
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
Sam Hunt -
I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
Edan Lepucki -
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
Daniel Bryan
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius -
I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
Mahesh Babu -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
Dakota Johnson -
I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
Patrick M. Byrne
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
Inga Cadranel -
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
Hailey Gates -
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina -
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.
Kevin Brady -
I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville was a kind of extraordinarily shameful moment, I think, actually for the country.
Neera Tanden -
Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
Carol P. Christ -
I would loved to have played with Scholes. He plays the game the way it should be played and at his peak he was the best midfield player in the world.
Xavi -
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
Jim Yong Kim