Jennifer Westfeldt Quotes

Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

Jennifer Westfeldt

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• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Free

• I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When anything goes, it's women who lose.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Lose
  • Anything

• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Common
  • Very
  • Cows

• I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Man
  • Army
  • Knew

• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Construction

• We can conceive of various kinds of democracy. But my intention is not to treat of every kind, but of that only, 'wherein all, without exception, who owe allegiance to the laws of the country only, and are further independent and of respectable life, have the right of voting in the supreme council and of filling the offices of the dominion.'

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • Country
  • Democracy

• Hindus were tolerant, he said, and would remain so. But tolerance didn't mean they wouldn't defend themselves. Looking at the terrorism that had been encouraged to spread in the last few years, Hindus would have to be aware of their need for self-defence. Else the coming days would be dangerous for them.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Tolerance

• Boxed Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Community

• People were soon talking only of my bons mots, and they esteemed my wit so highly that the clergy was forced to publish a decree that forbade anyone to believe I was capable of reason, and it expressly commanded everyone of all ranks to believe - no matter how intelligently I might act - that I was guided by instinct.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • People
  • Believe

• WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

  

  David Harewood
  • Friend
  • Sister
  • Driving

• I'm concerned about what I see is the fetishization around entrepreneurship in Africa. It's almost like it's the next new liberal thing. Like, 'Don't worry that there's no power because, hey, you're going to do solar and innovate around that.'

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Power
  • Worry

• The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.'

  

  Betty White
  • Today

• There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sad

• What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.

  

  Daniel Berehulak
  • People
  • Job
  • Remember

• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Genuine
  • Convictions
  • Intellects

• Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

  

  Chris Cornell Audioslave
  • Song
  • Reality
  • Feelings

• Well, you know, I'm quite a reluctant writer. I'm not someone who set out to be a writer or really wanted to be.

  

  Jennifer Westfeldt