Jazz Jennings Quotes
We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
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You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
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About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.
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We just want to help people understand that it's okay to be transgender, and they're just like everyone else.
