Jenny Slate Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
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When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.
