Janet Mock Quotes
For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.Janet Mock
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
Kate Smith -
The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
Baruj Benacerraf -
Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
Mahavira -
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling -
Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
Naomi Wolf -
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo
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My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams -
We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
Hamza Yusuf -
If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
J. R. Smith -
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
Fatos Nano -
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell
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We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.
Yishan Wong -
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
Ice T -
I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
Sam Brownback -
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
Harry Browne -
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
Gary Sinise -
Photography is a big part of my life: taking photographs, being around photographers.
Jamie Hince -
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Pawan Kalyan -
I have always loved animals since I was very young.
Nafisa Joseph -
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their public trust to impose their policy preferences on society. In fact, no radical political movement has been more effective in undermining our system of government than the judiciary. And with each Supreme Court term, we hold our collective breath hoping the justices will do no further damage, knowing full well they will disappoint. Such is the nature of judicial tyranny.
Mark Levin -
For many, hair is just hair. It's something you grow, shape, adapt, adorn, and cut. But my hair has always been so much more than what's on my head. It's a marker of how free I felt in my body, how comfortable I was with myself, and how much agency I had to control my body and express myself with it.
Janet Mock