"Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

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“Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.”
“I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.
“Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.”
“Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.”
“Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.”
“Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.”
“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”
“Good government is no substitute for self-government.”

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