Janet Mock Quotes

As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

Janet Mock

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• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Nature

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • New
  • Opportunities
  • Wave

• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • World
  • Music
  • Man

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Character
  • Star
  • Hair

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Community
  • Rich

• I can see why people keep having babies. We were looking at a school for my youngest this morning, and there were all these little boys and girls. So sweet. And then the teenagers walk past, and, my God, they're enormous, and I bet they don't kiss their mummies. I'm just going to force my children to remain lovely.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • God
  • Children

• I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Difference
  • Year

• I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Up
  • Mother

• Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Leaving
  • Clever

• When things look dark, void, and altogether hopeless to the colored youth of America..., when they need an inspiring thought that should urge them onward to the road of achievement despite forbidding obstacles, they will only need to read of and reflect upon the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • America
  • Career
  • Dark

• He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Heart
  • She
  • Fear

• I don't think we do a great job in America any more of distinguishing between campaigns and governance. We live in an environment that's all campaign all of the time and it's helpful, now that we've moved beyond a campaign and an election to get into a governance posture.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Environment
  • Campaign
  • Governance

• I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

  

  Jet Li
  • Important

• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

  

  Tertullian
  • Sin
  • Skill
  • Doubtless

• One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Human
  • Existence
  • Laws

• As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.

  

  Janet Mock