Jenna Wortham Quotes
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I like the fact that I can do stunts, but I don't think of myself as a stunt guy. Those guys are really good at what they do.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
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Start changing yourself if you want to change the life around you.
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I'm not one to spend my life asking the question, 'Is there racism in America?' Certainly there is. But I want to do something about it.
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Why don't we hear more about and from Asians when it comes to race in America? Are Asians the new Invisible Man - there but not there? In some ways, yeah. Blacks and whites are always carping about the metrics of racism. And any conversation about immigration reform is immediately flipped into a referendum on Hispanics.
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We should treat each other better. Why in the hell would you still have racism? This ancient, moronic hatred? Why does our foreign policy have to always involve so much death and so much death of innocent people as a matter of course, to the point to where no one bothers to say anything. I guess a lot of people don't want to move forward. It's frustrating at times.
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Making space to deal with the psychological toll of racism is absolutely necessary.
