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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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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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 superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
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That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.
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Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.
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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.
