Leila Janah Quotes
Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.
Leila Janah
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
Tamron Hall
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
Karen Salmansohn
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
Sam Worthington
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
Warren Moon
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Please know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as those of many, many others here in Alabama and around the country, are with each of you during this time.
Jo Bonner
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
Gene Klein
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Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.
Chris Borland
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Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
Louis Theroux
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Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.
Christian Camargo
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Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.
Leila Janah
