Jessica Valenti Quotes
My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
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On a perfect weekend, I'll stay in bed until I am rested, though I am not someone who sleeps late. Then I'll go for a run through the parks nearby, even if it is frosty and cold, and I love meeting friends for brunch. You know you are truly on a day off if you have time to do brunch.
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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
