Jazz Jennings Quotes
As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
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There's no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.
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The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
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A lot of celebrities...shouldn't talk politics... They're pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family.
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As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
