Janet Mock Quotes
What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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Acting changed my life. I say God and then acting. Because becoming an actor, I've gained a new respect for humanity. And I believe that it's also helped me to grow as a person. It's been one of the biggest blessings and expressions that I could have ever been gifted with.
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I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.
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I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
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I'm not a huge jewelry fan.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
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I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
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He is an example of a La Masia player. Technically he is unbelievable.
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Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.
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What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.
