Jenny Slate Quotes
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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When I leave the country, I'm very, very cautious about what I eat and drink. No vegetables, no fruit.
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In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.
