Jen Lancaster Quotes
When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
