Leila Janah Quotes
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.
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I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
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One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.
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Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.
