Jenny Slate Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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My first album was all rock. I used to sing rock en espanol, but I don't think many people remember that.
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Oh, for the sake of momentumI've allowed my fears to get larger than life.And it's brought me to my current agendumWhereupon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive.And I know life is getting shorter,I can't bring myself to set the scene.Even when it's approaching torture,I've got my routine.
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Daisy had learned not to pay much heed to techno-fads. To her fell the task of preserving as much as possible, so that when humanity finally did fall, it wouldn’t take everything else to the grave with it.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.
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I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.
