(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)
TINA FEYSo, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?”
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I hire people that are good, and aren’t crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy.
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‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say.
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I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that.
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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.
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I’m not that good looking… nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen.
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I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.
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Start with a ‘Yes’, and see where that takes you.
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I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It’s better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.
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My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don’t take myself too seriously.
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According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don’t worry, lonely women, you’ll be dead soon.
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In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history’s worst decisions […].
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Life is improvisation.
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You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. “Who cares?”
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I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement.
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