I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm ...
VALERIE HARPER I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage...
VALERIE HARPER Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you...
VALERIE HARPER I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
VALERIE HARPER We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
VALERIE HARPER We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
VALERIE HARPER Life does not owe me a shred.
VALERIE HARPER I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a c...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab ...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I am, and remain, passionate about news.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to s...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I will count to 10 before tweeting.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I know politics; I know the media.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER I'm not Cinderella.
VALERIE TRIERWEILER My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the g...
VALERIE TRIERWEILER Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
VALERIE SOLANAS In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into ever...
VALERIE SIMPSON We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a high...
VALERIE SIMPSON Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
VALERIE SIMPSON It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo an...
VALERIE SIMPSON Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It...
VALERIE SIMPSON When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce oth...
VALERIE SIMPSON I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl...
VALERIE SIMPSON It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
VALERIE SIMPSON And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
VALERIE SIMPSON Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody tau...
VALERIE SIMPSON I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would c...
VALERIE SIMPSON I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good...
VALERIE SIMPSON My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I&#...
VALERIE SIMPSON You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves ...
VALERIE SIMPSON In transition I think the spirit goes somewhere, but I don't think it leaves.
VALERIE SIMPSON There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Nee...
VALERIE SIMPSON Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.
VALERIE SIMPSON We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next...
VALERIE SIMPSON I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been aro...
VALERIE SIMPSON The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other peop...
VALERIE JUNE I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these...
VALERIE JUNE When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of...
VALERIE JUNE When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the worl...
VALERIE JUNE I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to rea...
VALERIE JUNE As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over ho...
VALERIE JUNE When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an im...
VALERIE JUNE I met PJ Harvey when I was in England, and the first thing I want to do when I meet a songwriter I a...
VALERIE JUNE I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me...
VALERIE JUNE When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
VALERIE JUNE I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walk...
VALERIE JUNE When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I...
VALERIE JUNE I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
VALERIE JUNE Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and...
VALERIE JUNE One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all the...
VALERIE JUNE Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
VALERIE JUNE My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When ...
VALERIE JUNE I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend ...
VALERIE JUNE I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and rel...
VALERIE JUNE As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure t...
VALERIE JUNE My signature fragrance would be herbal - basil mixed with rosemary and coriander. Some big stars hav...
VALERIE JUNE If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right t...
VALERIE JUNE My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap...
VALERIE JUNE I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them ...
VALERIE JUNE I must stay true to myself and take my own path all the way.
VALERIE JUNE People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington ...
VALERIE JARRETT President Obama stands ready to work with everyone, because that's what the American people expe...
VALERIE JARRETT I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face...
VALERIE JARRETT Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, makin...
VALERIE JARRETT For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currentl...
VALERIE JARRETT Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
VALERIE JARRETT But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that...
VALERIE JARRETT No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
VALERIE JARRETT President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that commo...
VALERIE JARRETT The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried...
VALERIE JARRETT Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead ...
VALERIE JARRETT If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlin...
VALERIE JARRETT There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally...
VALERIE JARRETT One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
VALERIE JARRETT My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could...
VALERIE JARRETT Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
VALERIE JARRETT Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepare...
VALERIE JARRETT We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also kn...
VALERIE JARRETT Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be ...
VALERIE JARRETT As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to r...
VALERIE JARRETT My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us mee...
VALERIE JARRETT A new era of responsibility is here.
VALERIE JARRETT I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the...
VALERIE JARRETT We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the be...
VALERIE JARRETT I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
VALERIE CRUZ With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that...
VALERIE CRUZ With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they&#...
VALERIE CRUZ Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelli...
VALERIE CRUZ I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such prox...
VALERIE CRUZ I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the...
VALERIE CRUZ I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invite...
VALERIE CRUZ The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own...
VALERIE CRUZ I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I d...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I&...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy w...
VALERIE BERTINELLI As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
VALERIE BERTINELLI I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for ga...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
VALERIE BERTINELLI I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some be...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, b...
VALERIE BERTINELLI If I sleep in and don't run, I'll feel a little bit off because I didn't do what I was s...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
VALERIE BERTINELLI My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
VALERIE BERTINELLI I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back i...
VALERIE BERTINELLI If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!
VALERIE BERTINELLI Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' i...
VALERIE BERTINELLI People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell ...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
VALERIE BERTINELLI I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked i...
VALERIE BERTINELLI We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
VALERIE BERTINELLI Honesty is very sexy.
VALERIE BERTINELLI After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss com...
VALERIE BERTINELLI I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing....
VALERIE AZLYNN I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca...
VALERIE AZLYNN I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believ...
VALERIE AZLYNN I like a man with some extra padding.
VALERIE AZLYNN I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different characte...
VALERIE AZLYNN Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
VALERIE AZLYNN There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around....
VALERIE AZLYNN My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.&...
VALERIE AZLYNN On the day of the audition for 'Sullivan and Son,' I had three other auditions all around Lo...
VALERIE AZLYNN I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work you...
VALERIE AZLYNN I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved...
VALERIE AZLYNN If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really...
VALERIE AZLYNN I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Go...
VALERIE AZLYNN Working out should be a key part of your life but not your whole life. When it is all a man could ta...
VALERIE AZLYNN I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
VALERIE AZLYNN Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is ...
VALERIE AZLYNN I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it&#...
VALERIE PLAME Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the ...
VALERIE PLAME To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a...
VALERIE SOLANIS Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and ...
VALERIE SOLANIS To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
VALERIE SOLANIS The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
VALERIE SOLANIS Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
VALERIE SOLANIS There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not...
VALERIE BERTINELLI Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it...
VALERIE BERTINELLI The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of ...
VALERIE JARRETT The only things I really love about myself physically are my ankles and my hair.
VALERIE BERTINELLI I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hol...
VALERIE PLAME I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love ...
VALERIE BERTINELLI No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they...
VALERIE ORMOND Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong ...
VALERIE PLAME I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to ...
VALERIE PLAME When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White Ho...
VALERIE PLAME The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can ...
VALERIE JARRETT The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
VALERIE JARRETT I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databa...
VALERIE PLAME I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
VALERIE PLAME My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way ...
VALERIE JUNE How, given the canine teeth and close-set eyes that declare the human animal to be a predator, had w...
VALERIE MARTIN We've targeted several types of industries such as automobile suppliers and distribution centers bec...
VALERIE GRAY Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand ...
VALERIE PLAME How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a co...
VALERIE PLAME These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your...
VALERIE PLAME To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and wa...
VALERIE PLAME We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national ...
VALERIE PLAME He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.
VALERIE SOLANAS Your description should include detailed directions on how to execute the prank, its intended respon...
VALERIE PONTBRIAND We had a spectacular turnout this year, far better than we could ever have imagined. We've had a ver...
VALERIE OSBORN The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an importa...
VALERIE PLAME Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have ...
VALERIE PLAME I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street fr...
VALERIE JUNE I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's i...
VALERIE PLAME It opened a lot of people's eyes. That day, people here realized how essential information technolog...
VALERIE ROBERTSON I counsel my clients to pull one [report] each quarter.
VALERIE SHERWOOD When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparen...
VALERIE PLAME Were from a world where if you never ask it's always a No
VALERIE WALKER Normally, activities like that are not something that would be enough to agitate a nest.
VALERIE FELLOWS Many people confuse “chronic fatigue” (which is a symptom of many chronic conditions, including ...
VALERIE FREE They also had a guest choir from Malden, Massachusetts, and the featured soloist with the choir was ...
VALERIE CUNNINGHAM According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiatio...
VALERIE PLAME As humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and havin...
VALERIE SOLANAS I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against...
VALERIE PLAME I expect the closest she got was something like Venice.
VALERIE STEELE I have been striving for this all season. Getting this last one meant a lot to me. Now I can focus o...
VALERIE BLOUNT I will never be the same. Never. He took something away from me, mentally and physically.
VALERIE AERNI I think this was a victory for all the employees at the Oregon State Hospital.
VALERIE AERNI I still have dreams of being beaten up. I'm not the same person, and I never will be. He has changed...
VALERIE AERNI If I lose this, we all lose. Everyone would be more vulnerable.
VALERIE AERNI If we could get to the point where we're the suppliers of the lettuce, that would be a great thing.
VALERIE ROBINSON Every Latter-day Saint is a feminist by virtue of being a member.
VALERIE HUDSON Sentiment remains fragile... We are still waiting for signs that companies are rebuilding margins an...
VALERIE PLAGNOL [Fitzgerald charged that Libby told FBI agents and the grand jury that] he was at the tail end of a ...
VALERIE PLAME That was the one major factor that, when they discontinued its use, the numbers recovered.
VALERIE FELLOWS Having a few pairs of boots, which can go with a variety of lengths, is really functional.
VALERIE STEELE Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified s...
VALERIE PLAME Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofs...
VALERIE SINASON Families go to the ballpark, so why not bring the dog?
VALERIE KOTYS To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown...
VALERIE OWENS They're a good source of one-stop diversification for a novice.
VALERIE PUTCHAVEN