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 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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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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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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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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My breakdancing crew used to go to the mall and squat a piece of cardboard there; we had our jam box, and I'd spin on my head and make about forty bucks a day, which was pretty good back then. I was only 14 years old, so I would chase the girls around the mall and eat some pizza and have some change left over.
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Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
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That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.
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Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.
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The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
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Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.
