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Valerie Jarrett Quotes

I saw a complete lack of courage in Washington to tackle some of our biggest challenges.

Valerie Jarrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Courage Challenges Washington Saw

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

Life Alone Beautiful Believe Find

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

Better Gone Industry Coal Worse

Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.

Stephanie Coontz

Life History Legal Single Whatever

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Christopher Hitchens

Loneliness Me Up Concept Exile

I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.

Great Humor I Can Everything Shield

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

Anthony Anderson

Act Who Some Worked

I am expressive but secretive about my emotions.

I Am Emotions Secretive About Am

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

Ambition Newspaper Kid Wanted Comics

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.

Change Mistakes People Start Strong

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them.

Women Alcohol Tolerance Drink Never

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Work People Me Living True Saw

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Learning Time Listening Looking Die

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