Abbi Jacobson Quotes
I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
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I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
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I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
