Muhammad Yunus Quotes

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Muhammad Yunus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 28, 1940

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WorkPeopleMeLivingTrueSaw

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

Jesse Ventura

PeopleMeRestNowWillTaxes

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made.

John Carmack

GreatSpaceDrivingInterestingYou

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

Stephen Daldry

LoveParentsYouRingTellUp

I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.'

Stephen Hough

TimeLookBackSayWantNever

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

Robyn Hitchcock

YouBalloonProfileLikeAgainYour

I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.

Michael Pryor

LifeGoodImaginationPeopleBetter

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Doris Lessing

DaughterGreatAfricaTwoGrandson

I don't envy anybody else's career because I feel they've earned where they're at and worked hard. I wouldn't mind Jack White's gig, though. He does it all!

Brian Fallon

MindFeelEnvyCareerWhiteHard

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

Brody Jenner

YouSometimesNeedOutOwnLevel

God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It's the only way they can work.

Brian Stableford

WorkGodWayMysteriousOnlyGods

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

Anne Lamott

GoodMotherHopeTimeCuteMe

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

Woody Harrelson

ChangeTimeGovernmentFightOil

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