Aileen Lee Quotes
Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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The name Jack was given by an American tourist.
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money.
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The more people who game, the better for everyone.
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As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
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Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.
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Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
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The solution of this problem is not only military, the solution has to be political.... We are prepared for the possibility of helping with a cease-fire.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
