Jazz Jennings Quotes
Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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I became quite a diva, and intolerant, and people knew when I was not pleased. Some people were afraid of me, and other people just kind of blew me off. But I wasn't making any friends. I only had one person who remained my friend, and he was my boyfriend for a while. Even though I told him I was gay, he was like, 'That's alright.'
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Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
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The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.
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I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.
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Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
