Jenna Wortham Quotes
As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Kids increase people's risk of eviction.
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As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
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As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.
