Valerie Jarrett Quotes
As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
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I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
