Jenna Wortham Quotes
Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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If you're sensitive, you will have a hard time with me.
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Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.
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The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.
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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.
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With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
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Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.
