#now

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#before #billion #billionaires #brings #dollars

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#back #being #certain time #i #just

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know? ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#clear #down #dumb #i #know

It is too late; now I wish I could live. ↗

— John Buford

#i #i wish #late #live #now

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #coups #get #going #gone

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#decades #downright #easier #either #haiti

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

#aid #been #billions #development #dollars

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. ↗

— Emma Bull

#count #everything #fit #give #how

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#bed #born #chance #child #children

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film. ↗

— Richard Farnsworth

#before #david #david lynch #even #film