Nancy Lublin Quotes

#1. Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

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#2. I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

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#3. Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

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#4. You cannot live with inner tranquility and peace when you hate others.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

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#6. I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people ... a long time ago.

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#7. I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

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#8. For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

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#9. When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

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#10. I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

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#11. When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

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#12. I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey ... executing the plan!

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#13. My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

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#14. You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.

Douglas Leone

#15. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

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#16. I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.

Peter Capaldi

#17. In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Ron Carlson

#18. The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

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#19. We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

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#20. I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

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#21. Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

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#22. It is the world that shapes people's minds. It is men who have shaped the world. So women's minds are shaped by men. From earliest childhood, the world they see is made by men. Now the women lie to themselves and there is confusion and unhappiness everywhere.

Ian McEwan

#23. Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

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#24. Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

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#25. My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

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#26. For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work

Hilary Kornblith

#27. I want her, he realized. I want Winterfell, yes, but I want her as well, child or woman or whatever she is. I want to comfort her. I want to hear her laugh. I want her to come to me willingly, bring me her joys and her sorrows and her lust.

George R R Martin

#28. Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

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#29. Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.

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#30. If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

Craig Groeschel

#31. I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.

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#32. Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

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