Jessica Valenti Quotes

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 1, 1978

Topics

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I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Jim Lovell

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If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Andrew Cuomo

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I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.

Jean Reno

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In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

John Sexton

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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Tom Courtenay

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When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Ronald Kessler

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It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Jon Lord

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If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

Clifford Geertz

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In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.

Brian Cox

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People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.

Bobby Bowden

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