Aileen Lee Quotes
I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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There's time enough, but none to spare.
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I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls becoming increasingly scientifically illiterate and that girls lacked confidence in their capabilities when it came to quantitative skills. And I just thought that was kind of wrong.
