Jessica Valenti Quotes
The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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You don't have to twist my arm to work.
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Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
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The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
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The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.
