Jen Selinsky Quotes
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.
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I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.
