Jim Yong Kim Quotes

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

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I do not believe it is appropriate or in the best interest of Kentucky to recommend policies that would move Kentucky from low-cost energy options to high-cost energy options.

Joe Craft

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When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

Andrew Solomon

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Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

Maxine Waters

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I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

John Lydon

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Personally, I'm not into 'Star Trek' or physics or comic books, but I know I might be in the minority.

Simon Helberg

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The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies... It is involved with everything. And I thought, 'That's where I want to be.'

Mick Mulvaney

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Hollywood is a world all its own.

Moira Kelly

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Well I am grooming him, he has a boxing trainer that knows what he is talking about, and once he has that he is able to put everything together and he listens, and when somebody listens they are able to accomplish anything.

Michael Moorer

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It takes two flints to make a fire.

Louisa May Alcott

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I wanna make music; that's all I wanna do.

Jon Bellion

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You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Cory Booker

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I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Brie Larson

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