Jen Kirkman Quotes
Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!
Quotes to Explore
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I love cooking and baking.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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They will play a part, but it's unlikely they will provide everything we need; they need more support, more aid in deployment.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.
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Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!
