Jenny Slate Quotes
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
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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.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
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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?
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I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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Gymnastics should be popular everywhere; you just need the right person to start the right programme.
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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.
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A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
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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.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
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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.
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Between the ages of 8 and 12, all I wanted to read were 'Star Wars' books.
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Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.
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Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
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I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.
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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.
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Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.
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Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
