Jenny Slate Quotes
That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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To tell you the truth, I was turning into a little spoiled brat after 'Rocky V.'
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When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That's when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work.
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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.
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You don't realize until afterwards that if you feed the subconscious, it will bleed into your everyday life.
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We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
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Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.
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And yet I was filled with grief. In the beginning of all love there is grief, because at that moment you’re closest to the ghost of parting. You know how easily it could all slip away, how easily it could evaporate into eternal, never-to-be-consummated longing.
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That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
