Leigh-Allyn Baker Quotes
'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
Sam Smith
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
Halima Aden
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We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
Orville Wright
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I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
Barbara Kingsolver
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There have always been different opinions on some elements of our sanction policy. It will probably stay that way... What is important is that we keep this unity and decide all together.
Federica Mogherini
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Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
Adam Hamilton
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Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.
Dan Aykroyd
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'He’s a fair man.'I looked at him, startled.'I said fair,' he repeated. 'Not likable.'I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.
Octavia E. Butler
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
Agatha Christie
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Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.
Laurel Clark
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I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.
Christine Tsai
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I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
Alva Myrdal
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I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.
Chelsea Handler
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In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Margaret Cavendish
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Robin had never been in love before, which is precisely how he recognized the sensation with such absolute certainty.
Connie Brockway
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For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.
Lynn Jurich
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I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.
Megan Fox
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I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.
Lisa Ling
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
William Ellery Channing
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'Having it all' is such an intimidating concept. Just when you think you have all those plates spinning perfectly... something changes. It is a constant balancing act.
Leigh-Allyn Baker