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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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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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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Many of our problems are blessings in disguise.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
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I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
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If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.
