Jazz Jennings Quotes
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Considering the regular use of make-up and the fact that I'm under the glare of the harsh shooting lights practically all the time, I'm adamant about using really strong cleansing milk to get the make-up off my skin, and I never sleep with make-up on, however tired I am.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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President Trump can't vote for me. The people that sent me up here sent me up here to repeal and replace, 100 percent, the Affordable Care Act.
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From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
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If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
