Jenny Slate Quotes
I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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My family never owned a home. We leased.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.
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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
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'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'
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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
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The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.
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Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis.
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Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.
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Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
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I feel I have to be totally cemented in my position, all: 'You can't tell me what to do with my body', but there is another part of me that is, you know, myself: vulnerable, with lots of doubts.
