Jessica Jackley Quotes
There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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I think what we really need to think about is how do we reimagine the management and movement of money in an era where everyone will have a smartphone.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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One can never do anything so beautiful as nature.
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The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
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There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.
