Leila Janah Quotes
The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.
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A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
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I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.
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Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.
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We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you. We don't torture people, OK.
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The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
