Leila Janah Quotes
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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These were all the women whom Bluebeard had married, and whose throats he had cut one after the other.
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We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.
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Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
