Leigh-Allyn Baker Quotes

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

Leigh-Allyn Baker

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

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• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

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• Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

  

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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

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• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

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• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

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• Every time you get something, give something away.

  

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• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

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• Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.

  

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• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

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• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

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• And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education.

  

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• I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

  

  Leigh-Allyn Baker
  • Work
  • Home
  • Baby