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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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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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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We want to avoid creating this sort of inevitability that it's an all-or-nothing proposition that leads us down the path of a dead-end street. This package really does reflect, I believe, the more cautionary approach.
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Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
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All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.
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I strongly support the feeding of children.
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I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
