Jenna Wortham Quotes
Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
Quotes to Explore
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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My day-to-day look is inspired by comfort, color and just how I'm feeling that day.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
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It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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These, in the day when heaven was falling,The hour when earth’s foundations fled,Followed their mercenary callingAnd took their wages and are dead.Their shoulders held the sky suspended;They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;What God abandoned, these defended,And saved the sum of things for pay.
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Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
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As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.
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There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
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There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
