Valerie Jarrett Quotes

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

Valerie Jarrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 14, 1956

Topics

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I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

Jiang Wen

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Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

Jerry Saltz

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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

John Cassavetes

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Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

Jeff Fortenberry

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This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

John Quincy Adams

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When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

Tracy Morgan

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No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that.

Jay-Z

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Running to do a job as important as the governor's shouldn't be easy; it should take a lot of work, and I'm out there giving my best every day.

Doug Ducey

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I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

Woody Harrelson

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

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In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

Pir Vilayat Khan

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I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Pink

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