Jenna Wortham Quotes

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Jenna Wortham

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• I'm happy to fight anybody.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • Fight
  • Anybody

• Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Military
  • Doing
  • Prevail

• When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Home
  • Happy

• I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • My Own

• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Always

• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Reading

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
  • Swing
  • Bat

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Love
  • Tradition
  • Admire

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

  

  Lisa Snowdon
  • Experience
  • Sun
  • Beach

• I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.

  

  Jerry West
  • Good
  • Game
  • Night

• If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.

  

  David Christian
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• I've always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

  

  Blake Michael
  • Up
  • Music

• Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Bad

• A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.

  

  Jenna Wortham
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