Jen Sincero Quotes
I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
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People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
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There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.
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Some of the ideas I try to get across to the people who work for me are the following:
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I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
