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 never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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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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Teams that have lost a lot of games are dangerous teams and we knew that coming in. We just have no excuses. They outplayed us tonight.
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We have a good time and try not to kill each other.
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The Olympics are only once every four years, so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.
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You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
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Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'
