Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.
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These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.
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I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.
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Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
