Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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• I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • High
  • Technology

• Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Famous
  • Internet

• The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • World
  • Reality

• The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • People
  • Pride
  • Leaving

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Nice
  • Find

• I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Doing
  • Year

• There's not too many rich black people in this world.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Dream
  • Running

• The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Never
  • Rich

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique. You have to think, 'I'm me. I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Myself
  • Unique

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• Actually, if you listen to the vocals on my grandfather's records, you will hear we sound similar. We both sound kind of dry. We have a dry voice, and we both love harmony - he was a man of harmony, I'm a man of harmony. I think it just runs in our blood.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III

• Of course I don't use my A-material, it doesn't matter if they think I'm funny or not because they won't be thinking anything pretty soon anyways, if you caych my drift.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

  

  Geoff Mulgan
  • Creativity

• People have to understand that unless social enterprise is experimental, it will not succeed in making a difference.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People