Jenny Lewis Quotes
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
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I was a total dork in high school.
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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I hate picking out clothes.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.
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There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.
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We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
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I think, as a kid, turning on the television and seeing that everyone seemed to be wealthy and white made me feel like an outsider, lesser than. I was not wealthy. I was not white.
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'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
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I'm typically not a heels person.
