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.Jessica Jackley
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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.
Babasaheb -
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
Damian McGinty -
A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
D. A. Pennebaker -
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?
Valerie Plame -
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
Brown Campbell -
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.
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
Nagarjuna -
I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
Dak Prescott -
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
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.
Rakul Preet Singh -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
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.
Walter Kirn -
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.
Viktor Orban -
'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.
Barry Jenkins
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I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.
Jenny Slate -
You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.
Jason Aldean -
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
G. I. Gurdjieff -
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
Ben Stein -
Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.
Matt Czuchry -
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.
Jessica Jackley