Jenny Slate Quotes

I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

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• I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Talk

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Funny
  • College

• 'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Trump

• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Tax
  • Clients
  • Accountants

• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Ride

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Just

• It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

  

  James Brown
  • Kind
  • Talent
  • Saws

• Good evening and welcome to Have I Got News for You, the show that's done for Friday and Saturday nights what ten pints of lager does for Sunday mornings, although I wouldn't know, being more partial to cocaine personally. Allegedly.

  

  Angus Deayton
  • Morning
  • Show
  • Friday

• I'm the king of the world!

  

  James Cameron
  • World
  • King

• Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Second
  • Onstage
  • Guitarist

• I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable.

  

  Jenny Slate