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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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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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.
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In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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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.
