Jenna Wortham Quotes
For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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Some of my college friends used to laugh at me. But no one's laughing anymore. Now, they all try to get free underwear.
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I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.
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You should feel good about yourself because of your accomplishments. Not because somebody yelled at you to feel good about yourself.
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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they are, but also all the country to understand what this means: what the civil rights movement does to us as people. It is part of the journey that we must be on in order to become fully evolved human beings.
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Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.
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Right up until today Pollock her husband and famous painter; died Aug. 1956 well takes a lot of mine time.. ..and while you ask 'How much did it take out of me as a creative artist', I ask simultaneously, 'What did it give?' It is a two-way affair at all times. I would give anything to have someone giving me what I was able to give Pollock.
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Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
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Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
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There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.
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The democratic system is at least as important as scientific and technological superiority. Feeding off each other, they both became strong and achieved the status of world civilisation.
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While it's certainly true that many people think that dairy doesn't have a cost to the animal, it's because they never went to a dairy farm.
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For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.
