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Leila Janah Quotes

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

Leila Janah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 9, 1982

Topics

Life War Parents Story My Life Find

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

Jessica Williams

Work Daily Thought Year You Want

The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.

John Russell

Negative Name Native Americans Intern

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

Stephen Hunter

Life Good Drive You Find Cinema

I think if I'd quit years ago, I'd never have known what I was capable of doing.

Tom Petty

Think Doing Quit Never Capable

I am ridiculously high-maintenance.

Rufus Wainwright

I Am Am Ridiculously

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

Memory Wish Forget Nothing Thing

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar.

Michelle Dockery

Door House Garden Sushi Want London

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Milarepa

Soon Slowly Shall Arrive Hasten

The beauty of being co-founders with your spouse is that we run our business and family together.

Julia Hartz

Family Beauty Business Together Run

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

Jonathan Shapiro

Law Country Expectation Will Torture

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nature Profit Nothing Rage Out Got

Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually.

Corey Hawkins

Job Rest Doing Talking You Acting