Jen Kirkman Quotes
Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.
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'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
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Colleges accept the highest sub-scores from different administrations. So if a student takes the SAT many times instead of once, she has a larger pool of scores from which to pick out the highest math, critical reading, and writing.
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Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let's face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.
