Jenny Slate Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I always have to be writing.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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My life is my message.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
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What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.
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I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
