Muhammad Yunus Quotes

I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework assumes, just from making money.

Muhammad Yunus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

Jens Lekman

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I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

Andrew Lincoln

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I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

Matt Kemp

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Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Michelle Pfeiffer

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We don't infantilize our kids. If they ask us a question that's tough, we answer it honestly.

Jason Jones

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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

Diane Arbus

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I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

Drew Barrymore

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Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Claire Tomalin

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But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Brian Lumley

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Aristotle Onassis

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Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

Scott Adkins

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Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

Nicole Richie

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