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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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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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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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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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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I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
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Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
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Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug use is more complex because even moderate use can have unforeseen consequences.
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Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.
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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.
