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.

Jazz Jennings

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• Family
• Kids
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• Acceptance

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• I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Baby
  • Identity

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• 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.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• 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.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Day
  • Problems
  • Inspire

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Culture
  • Detail

• 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.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• 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.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• 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.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Years

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • Books

• 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.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Reality
  • Chance

• 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?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • God
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Years

• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Nature

• I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Good
  • Important
  • History

• I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.

  

  Claude Williams
  • Good
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Important
  • Family
  • Kids