Janet Mock Quotes

Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.

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• We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Brother
  • Doctor
  • Engineer

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Home
  • Football
  • Try

• Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Learn
  • Teach

• I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Thought
  • Acting
  • Studying

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Career

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • God
  • Children
  • Care

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Age
  • Grateful

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • You
  • Grateful

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Turn

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Execution

• I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

  

  Jennette McCurdy
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  

  Andrew Niccol
  • Technology
  • Aging
  • Gene

• Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People

• Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.

  

  Janet Mock
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