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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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
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It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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Being in the latter stages of life means the morning is unkind to the reflection. It takes a few hours for the creases to fall out. By about 4 P.M., I look quite nice.
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
