Aileen Lee Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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Day one through three of the radio tour, I actually went by Camaron Ochs. I went to my first set of radio remotes, and everybody was just like 'What's your last name?' It's not easy to pronounce. The first two minutes I got with people, that's what they wanted to talk about, and sometimes those two minutes is all you get.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.
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Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
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I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like 'Parks and Recreation' and the British version of 'The Office.' I'm reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I'm weirdly into true crime.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I learned tolerance at a very early age.
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I appreciate the sacrifices my dad made. I went to a great public high school.
