Aileen Lee Quotes
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I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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My guess is that if David Beckham wants Ronaldo's jersey, he's going to get it.
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I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler.
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I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.
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To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.
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The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.
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A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.
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If you're a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you.
