Jenny Slate Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
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The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.
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Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.
