Lena Waithe Quotes

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

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• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Me
  • Rest

• There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Limits

• I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Involved

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hard

• I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • House
  • Bike
  • Rocks

• Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Trust
  • Dry

• What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Today
  • Week
  • Tomorrow

• Die Verehrung mächtiger unsichtbarer Wesen, welche dem hülflosen Menschen durch die natürliche, auf dem Bewusstsein seines Unvermögens gegründete Furcht abgenöthigt wurde, …

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer. We can just step off the sidewalk. And sometimes we can get impressionable members of the opposite sex to perform sacramental rites with us. 'Every drop of water wasted is a drop less of a wild and scenic river, Jennifer. We'd better double up in the shower.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Earth

• However, I am no big fan of Smalltalk either, even though it compares very favourably with most programming systems today (I don’t like any of them, and I don’t think any of them are suitable for the real programming problems of today, whether for systems or for end-users).

  

  Alan Kay
  • Real
  • Today

• The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Lies

• 'But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavour toward better understanding.'

  

  Marc Bloch
  • History
  • Understanding

• The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• Being a superhero is a metaphor for a job that is overwhelming.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Job
  • Superhero

• My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Father
  • Want
  • Television

• It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Business
  • Jump

• American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • American
  • Tradition

• I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

  

  John Allison
  • People
  • Important
  • College

• I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thought it was demeaning. I was this ridiculous little kid.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Kids

• I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.

  

  Lena Waithe