Jenny Zhang Quotes
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
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Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Me, I don't need money.
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Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
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If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.
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Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
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What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
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I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take note of who hides their origins and who shows them off.
