Jennifer Hyman Quotes
My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.
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I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
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You always pass failure on the way to success.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.
