Jazz Jennings Quotes
I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experience. It's coming at your body. There's light, there's sound, the lights in some pieces are going on and off. There's loud roaring sound happening.
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Most people try to escalate a relationship too quickly. Trust is built slowly, over time. Good relationships are built little by little, and there are no shortcuts, so do not try to push the relationship to progress faster than is natural. Because relationships are progressions, follow-ups are important.
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I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.
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I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.
