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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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.
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Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it's so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.
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The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.
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Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as part of our national identity. We understand that this allows us to provide better services to our people than our money would allow.
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Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.
