Valerie Jarrett Quotes

I finally said, 'I don't care if you're the first person in your family to be a lawyer.' Everybody thought what I was doing was really exciting, but it was not moving me one bit. And that's when I decided to join city government in Chicago, and that changed my life.

Valerie Jarrett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Johann Lamont

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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

John Paul Jones

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The idea of the celebrity politician is nothing new, and depending on one's perspective, either President Obama or Sarah Palin are the country's first celebrity politicians.

Meghan McCain

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George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.

Moe Howard

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I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

Joss Stone

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I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

Jared Polis

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I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

Domo Genesis

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I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

Desiree Rogers

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People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

Douglas Conant

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