Leandra Medine Quotes
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying : try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.
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Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.
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I begin by considering an effect.
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Is not living at all not better than living badly?
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I had nothing to lose so I may as well do it my way.
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When push comes to shove, no one really cares what you're wearing except you.
