Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Quotes
'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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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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I went to the school of hard knocks.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
