Valerie Jarrett Quotes

People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

Valerie Jarrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Joan Cusack

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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

John Dos Passos

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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

John Lewis Gaddis

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I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

Max Baer

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Every time I see a film or TV show, I think about how that composer made those choices and how that director envisioned music and how that could work onstage or in a film and how you could support that even further by putting lyrics to it.

Robert Lopez

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If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Jean Giraudoux

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While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.

Steve Jurvetson

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I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

Sue Monk Kidd

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I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Trent Reznor

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My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

Jason Bateman

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I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

Jason Behr

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Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

Dominic Thiem

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