Jenna Wortham Quotes
For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I can always go back to education.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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They hate whom they fear.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends, and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.
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The whole question of God and what God is, and whether it's a blond guy with a beard, I don't know... I don't know that. Do I believe that there's something greater at work than the sum of humanity? Yeah, I think so.
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I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.
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When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
