Leila Janah Quotes
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.
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I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.
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At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
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My favorite festival beauty look is definitely braids and hats: a messy fishtail braid and a cute outfit, and I'm ready!
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For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.
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My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.
