Jenny Slate Quotes
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.
-
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
-
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
-
There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
-
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
-
Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
-
When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
-
As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
-
I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
-
I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
-
Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
-
Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
-
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
-
A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
-
Curiously enough he found in senior year that he had acquired a position in his class. He learned that he was looked upon as a rather romantic figure, a scholar, a recluse, a tower of erudition. This amused him but secretly pleased him - he began going out, at first a little and then a great deal.
-
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
-
Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
-
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
-
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
-
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
-
Tomorrow we will pass a pharmaceutical plan that takes care of the neediest in our society, ... Older Americans deserve financial security and health security.
-
Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.
-
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
