Janet Mock Quotes
I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.
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For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.
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People take toasting way too seriously - especially the clinking glasses part. There are always a few people who are seated too far away from each other to easily clink.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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I don't need an Emmy to tell me to go to work. I've been working.
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I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.
