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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It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
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This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
