Jenny Slate Quotes

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

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• I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Should
  • I Can
  • Decide

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Conscious
  • Rapper

• I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Better

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• Philosophy was once considered science.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Once

• God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!

  

  Bailee Madison
  • God
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Dress

• If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • World
  • Trying
  • Training

• Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Community

• Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Cool
  • Smile

• it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Rest

• There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

  

  Desmond Harrington

• People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • People
  • Causes
  • Secrecy

• The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing

• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

  

  Scott Weiss
  • People
  • World
  • Passion

• I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

  

  Jenny Slate