Janet Mock Quotes
I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.
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Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.
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Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
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I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.
