Jehane Noujaim Quotes
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
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A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.
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We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.
