James Wolfensohn Quotes

When I travel, I make certain that I spend at least half of my time in the field. You have to get out to meet people that are in poverty, that are looking to improve their lives. That's something that you can't read in books.

James Wolfensohn

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We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

Angus Young

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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

John Perkins

MenStepSameBuyFailSuccessful

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

Stephen Fry

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As long as you're a citizen of our country. As long as you're an American citizen, you're part of this populist, economic nationalist movement.

Steve Bannon

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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

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I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

Mike Lee

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I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

Louise Nurding

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It's possible to change.

Josh Gordon

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It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

Donny Osmond

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Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

Chloe Sevigny

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God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Brett Favre

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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Annie Lennox

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