"Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant."

-- Antonio Porchia

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“Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.”
“I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?”
“As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.”

Source : "Justin Long's Short List of Career Musts". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. November 6, 2013.
“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.119, Egmont UK
“Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.”
“Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.”
“I call the '70s the "golden age of television"; in the early '70s there were sensationally good shows.”
“I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.”

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