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Jessi Klein Quotes

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

Jessi Klein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1975

Topics

Time Comedy Place First Time First

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

Jim Bakker

Work Good God Together You Lose

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

Jenny Lewis

Nature Myself Song Sick Artist Know

Globalisation, for me, seems to be not first-order harm, and I find it very hard not to think about the billion people who have been dragged out of poverty as a result.

Angus Deaton

People Me Think Poverty Result Find

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

Jean Rostand

Man Hatred Little Who Like Engaged

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Anais Nin

Father Time Slavery Long Loving Dad

I'm not an introvert. I'm media shy.

Steven A. Cohen

Media Shy Introvert

I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.

Janis Ian

Think Musicians Doing Lazy Anything

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

Jared Polis

Change Progress Consequences Stop

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Dick Thornburgh

Rest Political Island Borders Within

Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then!

Colin Salmon

You Now Run Band Now And Then Out

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

Colson Whitehead

Book Try Before Antidote Each

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Antonio Porchia

Alone World Who He Remains Fill