Jessica Valenti Quotes
There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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Major League Baseball has the best idea of all. Three years before they'll take a kid out of college, then they have a minor league system that they put the kids in. I'm sure that if the NBA followed the same thing, there would be a lot of kids in a minor league system that still were not good enough to play in the major NBA.
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The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.
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People get a real kick out of hearing our songs with an orchestra. It makes you feel like you're in a movie with unexpected bursts of energy. It's really kind of psychedelic in a way.
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Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.
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My mom is an OK cook. She'll skewer me for saying that openly, because she claims to be a very good cook. She can make about, I don't know, 10 dishes, I think, which is four dishes more than I can make.
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There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all do the best we can at loving our kids and building our families.
