Jazz Jennings Quotes
Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
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Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.
