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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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.
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Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
