Jim Yong Kim Quotes
We’re interested in the peace but we understand that peace, justice and development go hand in hand. And I think we sent that message very strongly.
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I get depressed at airports.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Everything can be satirized.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
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At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.
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The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
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We’re interested in the peace but we understand that peace, justice and development go hand in hand. And I think we sent that message very strongly.
