Jazz Jennings Quotes
The only opinion that really affects me is my own opinion of myself because I determine the way I am, not anyone else.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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Let us have peace.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.
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I see the cure is not worth the pain.
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The only opinion that really affects me is my own opinion of myself because I determine the way I am, not anyone else.
