"It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty."

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Jessica Jackley

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“I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.”

Source : "Former Texas Governor Ann Richards Dies at 73". www.foxnews.com. September 14, 2006.
“Donald Trump believes in America, he believes in its people. He believes in its promise, is very liberating and you see that when you're with him privately, you see it publicly.”
“You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's about feeling alive in the moment because your adrenaline is going, your thinking about that present moment, you're not somewhere else, you're not thinking about what's going to happen 10 minutes from now, and that's the reason why I love fighting, it's when I'm in there. I feel free, I feel like there's no other place I want t be. I can't even think of anything beyond that second. That's why I'm drawn to the fight, because I love the presence of it, where it brings me mentally, it's the purest thing for me.”
“The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.”
“A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.”
“If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.”
“[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.”

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