Leila Janah Quotes
True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
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To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
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It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
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It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.
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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
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True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
