Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
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I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
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I am always on the women's side.
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Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
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I started directing on 'The Wire.'
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You're going to tell me that things aren't right in Cuba, and so we shouldn't engage. It's lunacy. Look outside your door and see the inhumanity of Americans... that we perpetrate on a daily basis in our lives... and then tell me that you're going to isolate Cuba as an example. I'm sorry; that's unacceptable.
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Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
