Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
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You will go most safely in the middle.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses - they don't really work for me. I have a really moderate, simple routine. I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.
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'Some Kind of Monster' is a challenge, and 'Through the Never' is an extension of that. Even the album we made with Lou Reed, it was a challenge.
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When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.
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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
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We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.
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I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
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What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.
