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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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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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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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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The city and the crowd unidealise love; and love, in the young warm heart of a girl, should be a dream apart from all commoner emotions - as sweet and as ethereal as the blush with which it is born and dies. Beauty gives its own gracefulness to love - there must be romance blended with the passion inspired by the very lovely face which the mirror reflected.
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God said, 'Let us make man in our image.' Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.'
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I'm lucky, I don't like sweets, not even chocolate.
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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.
