Janet Mock Quotes
We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border.
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Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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...the Democrats know that no matter how many GATTs, NAFTAs, empty OSHAs, and other betrayals...they heap on those labor leaders, they can be had because, once again, the Republicans are deemed worse.
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Dead silence ensued, which was well enough for Ansell, to whom it merely meant that neither of us had any more to say. But to educated people silence matters; it is a token of stupidity and lack of invention.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.
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Watch your attitude. I don't mean to sound like so much of an old head, but there is another generation behind me, out there, doing it now. I find that, with the whole hip-hop generation, there's a lot of attitude. Whether it's confidence or arrogance or whichever, I will always say to a young guy, “Nobody wants to work with an asshole.” You know, you can still be a great player. You can still play all of the baddest licks in the world. But if you don't have a good attitude, nobody's going to work with you.
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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
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We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.
