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 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

• 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

• 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

• I don't let gossip about my alleged affairs with Abhishek (Bachchan) or Govinda bother me anymore. People have even married me off to Karan Johar! The rumours about Govinda did make me furious. I felt sorry for Sunitaji. As far as Abhishek goes, I’m not dating him. I have no time for dates.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Time
  • Sorry

• I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

  

  Maria Callas

• Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, 'turn on and drop out, man' - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe

• I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Parents

• Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

  

  Nelly
  • People
  • Artist
  • Certain

• Even though I was very young, it was traumatizing seeing someone try weird things on their skin all for the sake of being lighter. It's as common as relaxing your hair or maybe even brushing your teeth. I had friends not wanting to do it, but their moms gave them creams to help lighten their skin. That's how accessible it is.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Hair

• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  

  B. W. Powe
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Gold

• It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Success
  • Way
  • Failure

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

  

  Jenny Slate