Janet Mock Quotes
I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I don't consider myself a pariah.
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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
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If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
