Jessica Jackley Quotes
I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.
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Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
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I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.
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If I think I'm going to get into trouble I always say that I'm sick.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.
