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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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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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.
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The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.
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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.
