Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
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All are my friends. I have no enemies.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.
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I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
