Jenny Slate Quotes

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

Jenny Slate

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• The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Know
  • Ideas
  • Idea

• Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Cool
  • Star
  • Big

• When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Up
  • Years
  • Professional

• I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Up
  • Money
  • Alone

• Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Opportunities

• I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Woman
  • Wear
  • Suit

• I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • Value
  • Democracy
  • End

• Mr. Clyde Ross at that time, like most African Americans around the country, was unable to secure a loan, due to policies around redlining and deciding, you know, who deserved the loans and who doesn’t. There was a broad, broad consensus that African Americans, for no other reason besides blanket racism, could not be responsible homeowners.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Time
  • Country
  • Racism

• The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Game

• I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Different

• I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.

  

  Allen Coulter
  • Time
  • House
  • City

• I just grew up loving beauty products. Going to the mall, and the Stila counter in the '90s. I was obsessed with hair dye.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Up
  • Hair

• You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

• Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Work
  • Done
  • American

• France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • She
  • Poetry

• Usually I'm very, very involved with choosing my character's wardrobe and knowing exactly how I want the character to look and this is the color palette and the textures and these are the kinds of shoes she'd wear.

  

  Kathleen Robertson
  • She
  • Character
  • Color

• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Book
  • Poetry

• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  

  Alan Weisman
  • Future
  • Hurricanes

• As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Truth
  • Imperfection

• For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow. A knot of rogue atoms. Weightless. A body forms itself around that anomaly, and next comes a life, and the lives of that person's family.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Kids
  • Imperfection
  • Bus

• Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Quality
  • Helping
  • Leader

• I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • Imperfection