Jen Kirkman Quotes
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Quotes to Explore
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.
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My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.
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The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?
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We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
