Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes
Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions.
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I'm a big road trip guy. I'm the guy who gets in the RV and drives across country. And when you do that, you really get to see small-town America.
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Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.
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Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.
