Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes

I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Important
  • Day
  • End

• Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.

  

  Ovid
  • Long
  • Women
  • Like

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Knowledge
  • Jazz

• Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Wants

• I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Song

• Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

  

  Randy Falco
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Watch

• I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Attraction

• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Freedom
  • Human
  • Illusion

• I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Long
  • History
  • Evil

• I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

  

  Jeremy Piven
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Death
  • Lost

• If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Done
  • Business
  • Job

• A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Children
  • Done
  • Experience

• I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

  

  Jennifer Westfeldt
  • Pretty
  • Quality