Jessica Valenti Quotes
If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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Hitler's Europe Yes, welcome to Hitler's Europe... Come on, human race - for our children's sake if not our own. This is wakey, wakey time.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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I don't know - I don't listen to the radio that much. I really am an old-soul kind of girl.
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Military families are resilient through countless relocations, leaving friends, networks and transitioning to new schools and new jobs while fitting in to new communities.
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When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
