Jessica Jackley Quotes
The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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I eat next to nothing.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?
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I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.
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The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
