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 can afford to say what I wish.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
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For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.
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People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
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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.
