Paul Farmer Quotes

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.

Paul Farmer

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YouLookDevelopmentThingsGone

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

Jimmy Cliff

LifeFamilyGreatTogetherValueMe

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

John Amos

WorkGodCharacterHistoryMeRoots

Class warfare has never created a job.

John Fleming

JobClassNeverCreatedWarfare

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

John F. Kennedy

TodayWorldProblemsSolutionBasic

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

Sue Monk Kidd

WritingVoiceAmericanSlaveOff

I just feel that music is a great life because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

Ry Cooder

LifeMusicGreatYourselfPeople

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Rumi

HurtSomeoneBoredomWingsTasteUs

I want to be number one.

Masayoshi Son

WantNumber

Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

Mike Gordon

OpportunityMindSmallSayingFish

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Minnie Driver

BondTraditionYouBeingFilmPart

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

Mohammed Morsi

KindInsultAgainstProphetOurAny

We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play.

Jay McShann

NightPlayGo

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