Janet Mock Quotes
As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia Loren. Love was more important than nationality. The cultural heritage of that country and my parents is so interlaced that it really doesn't matter that a piece of paper tells them they're French.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
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I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I want to get rid of the Internet? Obviously, I don't want that because of all the amazing things it brings.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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People have been watching me since I was eight. They've been watching me grow up, so they feel that connection with me.
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
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As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.
