Jazz Jennings Quotes

It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'

Jazz Jennings

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• 'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.

  

  Feist
  • Growing
  • Respect
  • Self

• I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Angst

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Me

• 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Dog
  • Judge

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • You
  • Appreciate

• Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Know
  • Level

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• My character in 'OK OK' has a lot of attitude, and it is an interesting one.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Attitude

• What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Why

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Love
  • Best

• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Ambiguity
  • Constructive

• But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Pressure

• My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Money
  • Die

• You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Lisp

• With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Three

• Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Lost
  • Waiting

• It's something you're born with, and you realize that you're trapped in the wrong body. It's not like one day you're like, 'I want to be transgender!'

  

  Jazz Jennings