Jessica Valenti Quotes

There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.

Jessica Valenti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it's potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Jeremy Allaire

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I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

Spike Jonze

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My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation.

Dorothy Hamill

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All I ever wanted to do was write songs, and I just dreamed of putting out an album and having a single that maybe did alright.

Cole Swindell

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I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, 'I must absorb their awesomeness.' That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, 'I'm going to the Olympics.'

Bronte Campbell

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When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

William Kent Krueger

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Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Philip Hammond

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Going to Mars is a bunch of baby steps, and it started off with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Scott Kelly

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'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Nora Ephron

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I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

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Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?

Muhammad Yunus

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I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

Marianne Faithfull

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