Jenny Slate Quotes

For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

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• For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Past
  • Mistakes

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • People
  • Remember
  • Together

• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Work
  • Want
  • Like

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Loving

• You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Risk
  • Yourself
  • Dress

• The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Everyday

• I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Time
  • World
  • Team

• Have a mind that's open to everything, get attached to nothing.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Mind
  • Nothing
  • Open

• It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reality

• If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Twin

• After having explained this division, I contend that no intelligent person can assume that any of the actions of God can be vain, purposeless, or unimportant. According to our view and the view of all that follow the Law of Moses, all actions of God are 'exceedingly good.'

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • God
  • Law

• Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • May
  • Forever
  • Greed

• If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics 'until later', don't think that you've 'gotten away with it so far'. Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

  

  Jerry Jeff Walker
  • Business
  • Career
  • Adventure

• To be in the privileged position where I am able to give something back is, for me, perhaps the single most important measure of success.

  

  Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
  • Important
  • Single
  • Measure

• For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Past
  • Lost
  • Our Past

• For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'

  

  Jenny Slate