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 am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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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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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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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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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
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...even the police discussed this violence as possibly coming within the scope of their terms of reference.
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I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.
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Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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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.
