Jen Selinsky Quotes
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
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I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!
