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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There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.
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I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
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If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
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Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.
