Abbi Jacobson Quotes

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

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• If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can't throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I'm not big on 'things,' though, so I don't own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn't know where to put them.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
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• I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
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• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
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• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

  

  Carl Hagelin
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• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
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• What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.

  

  Olivia Holt
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• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
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• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  

  Ice Cube
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• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
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• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
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• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

  

  Ed Asner
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• I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

  

  Dan Pink
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• You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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