Jennifer Pahlka Quotes
Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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Never refuse a breath mint - you don't know why it's being offered.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
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Exobiology - a curious development in view of the fact that this 'science' has yet to demonstrate that its subject matter exists!
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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This poem is not addressed to you.You may come into it briefly,But no one will find you here, no one.You will have changed before the poem will.
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Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
