Janet Mock Quotes
My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.
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My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
