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!
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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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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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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it.
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Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
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I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
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I never understood retirement. What is the attraction of retirement? I go down there to Florida and look around and I said, my God, who wants this? Not me.
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I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb.
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Goodnight, thank you, and may your God go with you.
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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!
