Jenny Slate Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
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'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.
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I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.
