Jenny Slate Quotes
My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
Quotes to Explore
-
I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
-
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
-
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
-
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
-
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
-
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
-
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
-
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
-
It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
-
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
-
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
-
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
-
Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
-
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
-
I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
-
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
-
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black, so I'm supposed to think a certain way? I'm supposed to have certain opinions? I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
-
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
-
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
-
I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
-
Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.
-
My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
