"If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most."

-- Jim Yong Kim

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“People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.”

Source : "Pink Floyd Album Designer Storm Thorgerson Dies at 69" by Lakia Young, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 18, 2013.
“I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.”
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
“I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.”

Source : "Hear the Latest from Kreayshawn, a Tattooed, Potty-Mouthed Hip-Hop Artist With a Soft Spot for the Spice Girls" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.
“I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic and I'm not a comic person, it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at. I'm interested in reality, I'm interested in people, so it's just about finding a project I'm interested in.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.”
“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.”

Source : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323
“I do stay busy. I like new challenges.”

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