Aileen Lee Quotes
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.
