Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
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There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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I'm 'That Guy.' That's what most people call me, and I'm fine with that.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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The miniature potatoes tasted a little like dirt, and the green veggies were too chewy, but Jason ate them for the sake of his nutrition. Anything that terrible had to be healthy.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
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Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
