Janet Mock Quotes
One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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I love to smile.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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One musical that deeply influenced me - and continues to do so - is the 1997 ABC TV movie of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella,' starring Brandy, with Whitney Houston as the Fairy Godmother and Whoopi Goldberg as the prince's mom.
