Jessica Valenti Quotes
How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
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How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
