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Henry Kravis Quotes

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

Henry Kravis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1944

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Good Challenge Chance Thought Little

The best alpinists are the ones with the worst memories.

Jimmy Chin

Memories Best Worst

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

Joanna Southcott

Faith Strong Answer Cathedral Would

I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.

Jenova Chen

Technology Games Same Over Again

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

John Lasseter

Mother Teacher School High School

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.

Tom Wolfe

History Great Me American Wave Now

What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.

Robert Zubrin

Growth World Security First Driven

I ask people who they vote for sometimes. I think it is just trying to get to know somebody.

Ronna McDaniel

People Think Trying Know Sometimes

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

Johnny Weir

Summer Events Really Tune Olympics

Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.

Chris Squire

Good Worry Out Pull About Drawbacks

After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.

Clemantine Wamariya

Work Me Wind World Looking Choice

If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of what it was like to be alive on the planet in a particular time. Writing tells us what it meant for someone to be human.

Claire Messud

Time Writing Building Library Rich

When you're sitting ringside, there's a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It's just two guys going at it in the ring - there's no team, no one to pass the ball to - and there's a certain excitement to that.

Antoine Fuqua

Team Violence You Sitting Ring Two