Aileen Lee Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
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My swim coach was very tough on me, and I respond well to that training... being pushed to my limit.
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Some companies are worth paying for up front.
