Jenny Lawson Quotes
If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.
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Did you know that when a baby poops its diaper, you're not supposed to hit him with a rolled up newspaper?
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they require separate techniques.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.
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What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
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If you could hear the insane stuff going on in my head, it would scare the hell out of you. Probably. Or fascinate you. Depends on how easily you're startled, I guess.
