Janet Mock Quotes
I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
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I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.
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I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.
