Jack Valenti Quotes
I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
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I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.
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It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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I hope people will say I never had a hidden agenda, and I never played it cute around the turns, and that my integrity stayed intact.
