Leila Janah Quotes

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

Leila Janah

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PeoplePovertyTrainAdaptLiving

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

Joan Chen

FindMoreDifficultThanScenes

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Jerry Saltz

GoodArtUglyBadBoringUs

As we thought about how to help portfolio companies grow and scale while simultaneously supporting corporate discovery and experimentation, it became clear that we would need to collaborate with a technology infrastructure provider like AWS to help us build a platform for experimentation.

Meltem Demirors

TechnologyThoughtGrowHelpBuild

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV.

Tom Shales

TimeLongCivilizationLong TimeDid

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Mary Lou Williams

LoveMusicMeEndMusiciansHouse

It speaks to the incredible risk of doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran if American companies have to turn to federally guaranteed funding mechanisms to support their business there.

Mike Pompeo

BusinessSupportAmericanDoingRisk

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Miranda Lambert

LoveGoodSadLove IsHappySong

Depression is not interesting to watch.

Brad Pitt

DepressionInterestingWatch

It's a part of my lifestyle to be healthy and eat healthy. I don't feel like I need to be like, 'You can't have this. You can't have that. You have to have this. You have to have that,' because then I feel like I will get inconsistent. I indulge when I want to, but try to be healthy every single day, too.

Ali Krieger

DayFeelYouHealthyWantLifestyle

All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in.

Sydney Pollack

PeopleMoviesMadeInterestedAbout

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Peter Bichsel

LanguageThemselvesWriters

I don't like going out. I'm more of a watch TV, hang out, Netflix kind of guy. I don't like leaving; I don't like talking to people. It gives me anxiety.

Pete Davidson

PeopleMeAnxietyTalkingNetflix

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