Jessica Valenti Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
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The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
