Jenny Slate Quotes

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

Jenny Slate

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• 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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Together
  • Team

• I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Like
  • More

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Diamonds

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Couple
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • You
  • Child

• 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?

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Work
  • Chance

• I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Movies
  • Say

• I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Parents
  • Moving
  • Said

• Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

  

  Larry King
  • America
  • Today
  • Summer

• Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • You
  • Popular
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Science
  • Change
  • Action

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• 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.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Romantic
  • Senior

• 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.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • 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.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • American

• The cosmetics world and mentalism are both arenas of deception, but I suppose the difference is that mentalists and magicians are more honest about it. People tell me I have good skin, and I tell them the magic secret is E45 cream: cheap, cheerful, and very effective.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• 'Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so.'

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Death
  • Law

• Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Live
  • Die
  • Leaving

• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee

• Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

  

  Jenny Slate