Jenna Wortham Quotes
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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In African-American culture, there's often a family historian, someone who does the genealogy or keeps the family Bible. I became aware that might be one role the poet has.
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I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive. But it was the first time I had a chance to blow stuff up and take a family hostage.
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Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.
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The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.
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You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
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Luckily, my only responsibility for 'Still Processing' is to show up and talk.
