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 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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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
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The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
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The other problem is that the priority of many soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan is operational security: not getting killed. Now that is a very valid priority, but it has to be balanced against many other priorities, especially not killing too many locals in the process.
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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!
