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When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
— Evan Glodell
Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.
— Georges Bataille
You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean ...
— John Geddes
Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.
— Mohamed ElBaradei
It was a spider as large as a wagon wheel, black as slate.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Don't use a pick-up line.
— Jenny Slate
Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
— Jenny Slate
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
— Jenny Slate
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
— Thomas Hood
I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.
— Jenny Slate
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
— Simon Fowler
It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
— Jenny Slate
I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.
— Jenny Slate
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
— William Graham Sumner
I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.
— Jenny Slate
I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
— Jenny Slate
The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
— Jenny Slate
I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.
— Jenny Slate
I just really like it when things are earnest.
— Jenny Slate
I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.
— Jenny Slate
If you make a careless choice, you can really ruin things and it can take awhile for them to repair.
— Jenny Slate
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.
— Jenny Slate
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
— Sarah Addison Allen
It's quite a feeling to finish something you have been 10 years beholden to and to have a clean slate.
— Chad Harbach
I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.
— Jenny Slate
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone's graffiti.
— Wayne LaPierre
What I wanted was that walk: slate and windy, the sky overcast but not threatening rain. I
— Kathleen Rooney
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
— Rachel Sklar
Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.
— Jenny Slate
People like to talk about clean slates. But the only truly clean slate is a new one. The rest are gray from whatever's been written on them before.
— J.P. Delaney
I like mornings because each day is like another chance.
— Carrie Arcos
Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity
— Gretchen Rubin
The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.
— Dave Eggers
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
— George Sand
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.
— Mark Lawrence
She was a perfectly clean slate
a total enigma. — Patricia Cori
a total enigma. — Patricia Cori
I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.
— Jenny Slate
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
— Jenny Slate
Everyone starts out with a clean slate to soil.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 280)
— Danielle Weiler
Name and date split in soft slate a few months obliterate. 166
— Basil Bunting
There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.
— Candace Bushnell
Knowingness: I am like a newborn baby every day I wake up with a new slate to create.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
— Steven Pinker
There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.
— Jenny Slate
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.
— Jaggi Vasudev
He'd returned to this world with his mind wiped clean. The proverbial blank slate.
— Haruki Murakami
It's important to say women are complex.
— Jenny Slate
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
— Vinoba Bhave
Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.
— LIFE Magazine
Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.
— Peter Dickinson
A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.
— Jenny Slate
Because sometimes it's easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.
— Shaun David Hutchinson
You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
— Cillian Murphy
Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.
— P. J. O'Rourke
There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate.
— Christina Hopp
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,
— Robert Moses
It's a blank slate here, filled with possibility.
— Suzanne Young
There is no such thing as a clean slate. I know that now. You just embrace your dirty slate and build over it.
— Tarryn Fisher
The sky," he wrote on his slate, "is my living room. The woods are my parlor. The lonely lake is my bath. I can't remain behind a fence all my life.
— E.B. White
And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
— L.M. Montgomery
That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
— Jenny Slate
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
— D. B. Weiss
It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
— Jenny Slate
We love rom-coms, but it's getting to where we don't identify with any of the women in them.
— Jenny Slate
If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.
— Jenny Slate
I just want to be able to be creative.
— Jenny Slate
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.
— Dahlia Lithwick
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
— George MacDonald
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
— Jenny Slate
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.
— Colum McCann
I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
— Patrick Kane
I always loved to sing and was very, very loud. I wanted to be a movie star, like Judy Garland.
— Jenny Slate