Leila Janah Quotes
The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it's not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they're totally one and the same. I'm always going to be thinking about what my voice means.
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As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
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His boxing style is one that I would like to test myself against. I've always been a fan of his, and I've always wanted to test myself against Roy Jones.
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One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
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If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
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It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.
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If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.
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Our smartphones can offer innovative opportunities for improving how we react to our environment, and I believe it is increasingly becoming an asset - not a hindrance - to maintaining a healthier relationship with our work, our friends, and the world around us.
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Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.
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I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.
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A lot of people feel pressured by the outside influences, whether it's your job, whether it's school. But who says you can't take care of that stuff and still be young?
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The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.
