Jenny Slate Quotes
I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
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I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
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In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
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The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”
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I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
