Jessica Valenti Quotes

There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeStressMy LifeSomeoneTalking

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

Joao Lourenco

RichPowerfulPoorCannotPunished

That's a strong sign of a good coach, to let an assistant participate. It shows his confidence in the coach's ability not to have to dominate everything.

Jerry West

GoodConfidenceStrongCoachAbility

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Jessica Savitch

LifeEventsRealReal LifeSeem

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

Jerry Jeff Walker

GoodBusinessMusicTimeJobLate

With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original.

Mayer Hawthorne

LoveMeSongToughStrongChoose

Music has the ability to comfort people.

Matthew Morrison

MusicPeopleComfortAbility

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

BusinessGovernmentPlanPartyKnow

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Jonathan Galassi

ArtPoetryThinkWorryProblemWhy

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Jonathan Galassi

WorkBeenRatherCreatedPublisher

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

Douglas Conant

WorkQualityPeopleExpectationsWay

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Ariel Rechtshaid

TryingYouAlwaysImpressionGet

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

Shia LaBeouf

MistakePreparationCollegeProblem

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