Leila Janah Quotes
I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan for a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
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All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.
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The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
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I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
