Janet Mock Quotes
I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.
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When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
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You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
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I just want to keep America safe. Who could be against that?
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I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
