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.
Quotes to Explore
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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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 find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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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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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.
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The producers had seen "In a World..." and that's where they found me out and consequently sought me out for this role [in Man up].
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.
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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.
