Chelsea Manning Quotes
Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.
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I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most people who are cisgender - a word describing those people whose gender identity is in alignment with the sex they were assigned at birth - focus too much on the administrative, legal, and medical aspects of trans identity.
