Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

As a 25-year-old banker, I decided to leave my career and change the world. This sounds like a move that a 25-year-old banker might make today - to escape the chaos.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

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Liberals always blame the other guy.

John J. McLaughlin

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To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Michael Caine

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I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

Ruth Bradley

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In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Rupert Murdoch

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We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

Moira Kelly

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I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

Moby

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The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.

Jose Serrano

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I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

Douglas Rushkoff

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This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

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Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.

David Whyte

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Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

Constantin Brancusi

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