Valerie Jarrett Quotes
I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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Hard to believe God is always listening, never gets bored.
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My fallen heart doesn't know. But I will put effort and pretend that I don't know.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.