Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I find the business world hard.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't really think I am the most beautiful woman in the world at all. If I can create some illusion to that effect - and it seems I have - then that is what spells success to me.
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
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We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming message and check our e-mail even when we'd best pay attention to what's going on around us in the real world. We text while driving.
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I begin again, Dr.Y,this neverland journal,full of my own sense of filth.Why else keep a journal, if notto examine your own filth?
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When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.
