Aileen Lee Quotes
A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed,But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace, and nothing said;But that two-handed engine at the doorStands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
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A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.
