Jenny Scheinman Quotes
Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies - who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two - that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself.
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I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth - and I know it.
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I love a good paella, so I'd love to be able to know how to cook one.
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If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
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Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.
