Jenny Slate Quotes

I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

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• If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • May
  • Career
  • Know

• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

• Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Pain
  • Head
  • What If

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Nice
  • Beauty
  • Natural Beauty

• I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Funny
  • Optimist
  • Carries

• Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Career
  • Start

• I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Content

• See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women

• Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Society
  • Depression

• The will of the people is the best law.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Law

• His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Mad
  • Army
  • Driving

• The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 'Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Ocean

• It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May
  • Power
  • Question

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

  

  George Washington
  • Lions
  • Superiors
  • Packs

• When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Thinking
  • Mom
  • Picture

• When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!

  

  Santino Fontana
  • Waiting
  • Moved
  • Glad

• Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Expect
  • Bears
  • Prays

• People would do the sound of a truck backing up - beeeep, beeeep - as I was sitting down.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Truck

• I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.

  

  Jenny Slate