Donate Quotes - Page 2

• To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

  Jan Cameron

  Successful, Animal, Thinking

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• The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Fiction, Body, Shapes

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• There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Powerful, Real, Rights

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage

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• To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

  Henry Rollins

  Powerful, Cds, Littles

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• Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I decided to endow $100 million to set up the SOHO China Scholars. This program will give financial aid to Chinese students so they can attend the best universities in the world.

  Zhang Xin

  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You don't have to donate money, it can be clothes, or books, or mediavl supplies. So there's so much that can be done [for refugees], the most difficult thing is that first step that decision to do something.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Clothes, Decision

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.

  Lauren Conrad

  Kids, Years, Charity

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• No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

  Melina Marchetta

  Country, Feel Better, People

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There can be no clearer indication of how undemocratic the way we finance campaigns is than the fact that only one-quarter of 1% donate $200 or more, and only one-tenth of 1% gives $1,000 or more.

  Arianna Huffington

  Giving, Campaigns, Way

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.231, Crown

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• I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

  Aretha Franklin

  Community, Church, Food Banks

  "Aretha Franklin Gives Christmas A Soulful Twist". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 21, 2008.

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• Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.

  Billiam Coronel

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

  Michael Dell

  Heart, People, Generosity

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• Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

  Hamish Blake

  Kmart, Tree, Barbie

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• Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Track, Records

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• Less mess, less stress. That's my rule! If you don't stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I'll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don't love it, need it or haven't used it in the past year, it's gone.

  Molly Sims

  Stress, Past, Mess

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• Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate.

  Cass Sunstein

  Opportunity, Choices, Different

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• Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Writing, Blood, Years

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• There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Important, Billionaire

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves.

  Walt Disney

  Men, Design, Would Be

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• If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex.

  Derren Brown

  Charity, Splits, Doe

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• Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Cancer, Opportunity

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• How come you like Josh so much anyway? All he does is sit around drinking overpriced coffee and bitching about how awful things are" "He cares about the world." "If he cared about the world, he'd donate the ten thousand dollars he must spend on coffee every year to charity. That would be doing something.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Drinking, Coffee, Years

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Something, Maybe”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

  Jerry Lewis

  Phones, Years, Two

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• Do you know what the actual percentage of money the Clinton Foundation has raised that they donate so far to charity is? It's like 5%. Five percent of what they have collected they have donated - and of course, nobody reports that, either.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Charity, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.

  Robin Leach

  Giving, Finding Yourself, Charity

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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