James Wolfensohn Quotes

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.

James Wolfensohn

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With 'Interpreter,' I didn't know it was ever going to be a book, that they were going to be published. I was writing them in a vacuum for the most part. They were my apprentice work. Then the stories happened to become a book.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.

Jenny Slate

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Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

Jena Malone

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I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.

Michael Ignatieff

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One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

Michael Burry

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Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Dimebag Darrell

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I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Bob Uecker

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I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That's what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.

Allison Tolman

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I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

William Hurt

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The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

Peter Malkin

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Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility.

Pope Francis

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You can't put your name, recognition, your money in a company without having share in the control.

Tzipi Livni

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