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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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
W. Bruce Cameron
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Sally Ride
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You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
Payal Kadakia
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Enid Bagnold
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My whole life has been traveling, so it just seems normal to me, ... I'm able to leave on a bus with eight or nine guys, and I feel really comfortable with it. I've always done it. It's heaps of fun. They're all people I get along with really well. They're all my family, my best friends.
Kasey Chambers
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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
