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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I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.
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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
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I would say 10 percent of fans understand it, which might be more than the people who do it for a living.
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Essentially, all life depends upon the soil
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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.
