Jenny Slate Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.
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That's one of the things I'm most proud of is the character of the guys on this roster. They're anxious to step up and play for their country.
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Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
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I don't always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.
