Janet Mock Quotes
When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.
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Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.
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Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
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This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways.
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In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
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When you hear anyone policing the bodies of trans women, misgendering and othering us, and violently exiling us from spaces, you should not dismiss it as a trans issue that trans women should speak out against. You should be engaged in the dialogue, discourse, and activism that challenges the very fibers of your movement.
