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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Truth
  • American
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Country
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Company
  • Customers
  • Workers

• All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Wisdom
  • Does
  • Delhi

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Tree

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Like
  • Child

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Spanish

• 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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Treat

• 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.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Live
  • Day

• The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Best
  • Ballet
  • Dancing

• The name Jack was given by an American tourist.

  

  Jack Ma
  • American
  • Name
  • Tourist

• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Age
  • Control
  • Emotions

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Money
  • September
  • Him

• The more people who game, the better for everyone.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Game
  • Better

• Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

  

  Charles Jencks
  • Different
  • Architecture

• The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Free
  • Running
  • Taxes

• I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

  

  David Mitchell
  • World
  • Beautiful

• In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Book

• What grieves me is that I am constantly forgetting to recognize God’s hand in the little, everyday trials of life, and instead of receiving them as from Him, find fault with the instruments by which He sends them.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Life
  • Instruments
  • Forgetting

• Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

  

  Aileen Lee