Jazz Jennings Quotes

I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Joy
  • Gratitude
  • Thankful

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Loser

• I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Down

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Bull
  • Rider

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
  • Acting
  • First

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • History
  • Free
  • Expression

• The funny thing is that everyone thinks I'm naturally dark because all of my siblings are, but I'm naturally dirty blond.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Dirty

• Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Character

• My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • Dad
  • Crazy

• He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering.... He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet and there might be many others.... Then his newborn courage came back to him and he accepted his suffering as the price he must pay for the gift of creation that was his. And suffering, he had discovered, could be the gateway to renewal, than which no more glorious experience can be man's on earth.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Suffering
  • Race
  • Discovered

• My flexibility is probably my No. 1 asset. Obviously we need to have a strong shoulder, strong scapula, strong lats, and a durable elbow to have longevity as a pitcher, but being mobile in the hips and flexible in the hamstrings takes so much pressure and stress off of my arm.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Strong
  • Stress

• I've always known exactly who I am. I was a girl trapped in a boy's body.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Girl
  • Boy