Jim Yong Kim Quotes
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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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.
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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.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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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.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.
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What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
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Aristotle was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato…. He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that Plato said, 'Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.'
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
