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Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders. -- Arpad Busson
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. -- Penn Jillette
Charities should not become the junior partner in the welfare state; whether or not they provide services funded by Government or, indeed, receive grants from Government, they must remain independent and focused on their mission. -- William Shawcross
I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness. -- Josh Duhamel
Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities. -- Gisele Bundchen
I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame. -- Thom Yorke
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. -- William E. Simon
I work with a couple charities called Serving Those Who Serve and Rebuilding Together. Both are supportive of veterans when they come home. -- Jessica Biel
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. -- Jack Steinberger
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it. -- Russell Simmons
First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities. -- Bobby Hull
My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go. -- Bill Gates
There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject. -- Jim Flaherty
Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make. -- Jim Brown
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. -- Tom Kite
The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work. -- Bill Gates
Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal. -- Rick Wakeman
Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist. -- Dana Rohrabacher
We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can. -- Dan Pallotta
Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children. -- Richard MacDonald
Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up. -- Peter Tork
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world. -- Joyce Giraud
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what we call the social sector is missing. I find it much more effective to set up the actual social organisation and then fund it with my money. -- Ricardo Salinas Pliego
I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her. -- Kevyn Aucoin
I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people. -- Misha Collins
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. -- John Major
Truth is the root of all the charities. -- Orville Dewey
Most Muslim charities are run by good people. -- William Shawcross
I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth. -- Bea Arthur
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police. -- Robert Stack
I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need. -- Brian Blessed
Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities. -- Gerry Harvey
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way. -- Oscar de la Renta
Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities. -- Ferguson Jenkins
I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities. -- Rod Taylor
But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities. -- Bobby Sherman
An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities. -- Howard Lyman
People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services. -- Geoff Mulgan
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs. -- Dana Rohrabacher
Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give. -- William Gilmore Simms
I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need. -- Lauren Conrad
You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities. -- Joe Mantegna
My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities. -- Eric Idle
On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money. -- Chuck Feeney
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. -- Mark Twain
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. -- Larry Sabato
Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008. -- Larry Sabato
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities. -- Abbe Pierre
But I want to start a family one day, and be involved in more charities, helping children. -- Lily Aldridge
I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind. -- Serinda Swan
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. -- Martina Navratilova
I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that. -- Sam Simon
Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career. -- Kellyanne Conway
I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life. -- Chelsea Handler
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely? -- Dolly Parton
That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating. -- Will Rogers
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence. -- Paul Theroux
I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me. -- Laura San Giacomo
By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events. -- Tracy Austin
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. -- William Gilmore Simms
If I can raise more money for charities, or get more Canadian kids to play golf, the green jacket will mean even more. -- Mike Weir
Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all. -- Friedrich Schiller
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. -- William Wordsworth
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. -- Robert Reich
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value. -- Leila Janah
I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income. -- Frank Bruno
I like the way Microsoft participates in other-than-mainstream activities, such as academic research, charities, scholarships and connecting the disconnected by providing technology support to underserved people. -- Arfa Karim
Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience. -- Ben Rattray
My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children. -- Danielle Panabaker
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own. -- Francis Bacon
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas. -- Mindy Kaling
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. -- Muhammad Ali
All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support. -- Ferguson Jenkins
New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are. -- Justin Tuck
The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber. -- Sri Aurobindo
Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President? -- will.i.am
Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow. -- Galen Weston
Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions. -- Paul Bloom
Our Government is investing in stronger communities by supporting the important work of charities by reducing their administrative burden, encouraging charitable giving and allowing charities to use modern electronic tools. -- Kevin Sorenson
There are tens of thousands of charities and hundreds of thousands, getting towards millions, of people now using it. And when I flip through it, I'm just blown away by people. -- Edward Norton
I am proud to say that I am not in it for the money. If I made a million dollars, I would donate most of it to various charities and libraries. -- Selena I. R. Drake
Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty. -- Eugene Rivers
My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on. -- Ali Lohan
We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals. -- George W. Bush
I've been very passionate about animals for as long as I can remember, and ever since I became an actress, I've always done my best to get involved with animal charities and such. -- Haley Pullos
I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place. -- David Eisenhower
I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that. -- Russell Simmons
I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal. -- Tim Allen
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
When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we're so busy we don't even pay attention. -- Jenna Morasca
I've always been involved with charities and things like that, but when I started communicating with the fans and hearing their stories about the lives they lead, it really made an impact on me. -- Kat Graham
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities? -- Henry Ward Beecher
I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty. -- Peter Singer
I probably do the most for the gay and lesbian community, or LGBT, but I don't have one that I focus on. I just try and kind of do a lot for different charities. -- Chelsea Handler
I love being a Givenik Ambassador. Not only does it give me a platform to discuss my favorite charities, but I get to talk about my other favorite topic - 'The Judy Show!' -- Judy Gold
A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties. -- Sam Simon
I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do. -- Beyonce Knowles
The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. -- George Bancroft
Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead. -- Dan Pallotta
In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives. -- George W. Bush
Trump Foundation, small foundation. People contribute, I contribute. The money goes 100 percent - 100 percent goes to different charities, including a lot of military. I don't get anything. I don't buy boats. I don't buy planes. -- Donald Trump

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