Leila Janah Quotes
The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I love books.
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There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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Give and ye shall receive.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.
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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
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The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.