Jazz Jennings Quotes

As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

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• Islam means peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Peace
  • Means
  • Islam

• 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

• The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Future
  • You
  • Employer

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
  • Heat

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Live
  • Like

• No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • People
  • Happy
  • Dream

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • High
  • Pretty

• I don't know, I like the word sassy.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Know
  • Like
  • Sassy

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Balance

• We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • God
  • Experience

• The middlebrow, I hate.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Hate

• Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I used to be an awful asker. I was the 14-year-old who didn't correct the family I would babysit for when they gave me less money than we had agreed to, because it felt rude and scary.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Family
  • Money
  • Scary

• Thanks to having my dad travel with me, I don't feel quite cut off from my family.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Travel

• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke
  • Men
  • Used
  • Cynicism

• As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Family
  • Support