Jim Yong Kim Quotes

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Jim Yong Kim

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LifePathHelpDownDevelopment

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Tony Campolo

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I find dipping one's toe into all of these people's lives is one of the major exciting points of being an actor. This dilettantism.

Rupert Friend

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As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

Michelle Kwan

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When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

Luke Hemsworth

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The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Joseph Hume

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I believe that children should not be made to work.

Divyanka Tripathi

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Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Douglas Alexander

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Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

Cheryl Ladd

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It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

Perfume Genius

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Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Thomas John Barnardo

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'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.

Kevin Morby

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I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that. And then the fact that my children are okay. You know, you're only as happy as your least happy child. So if your kids aren't okay, you're not good.

Jane Fonda

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