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Jenna Wortham Quotes

Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune out the people we don't agree with.

Jenna Wortham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1981

Topics

Social Media People Better Media Way

I eat every two hours to balance my diet.

Jinder Mahal

Balance Diet Two Eat Hours Every

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

John Coltrane

Father Mother Home Young Become She

If our culture is so often readily and easily appropriated, imagine what happens when we embrace our full blackness and know that our contributions are just as important to the shaping of the country and, more broadly, the world.

Angela Rye

Culture World Country Know Important

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

Amber Tamblyn

Me Growing Up Growing Up Around Had

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

Story Thought Literature More Used

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Michael Lee-Chin

Life Ups And Downs You Deal Defines

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Louis Kronenberger

Life Poetry Advertising America Copy

I am not one of those who wants Obama to fail. If he does well, that means the country's doing well.

Lisa Murkowski

I Am Doing Country Fail Well Means

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

Little Richard

Life Rock And Roll Thought Legend

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Janis Joplin

Girl First Hippie Be The First Guess

We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that deprives future generations of the deterrent effect that the nuclear weapons have provided for us and for almost all of my life.

Des Browne

Life Future Live Decision World

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

David Sedaris

London Like Other Foreigner Many