Jazz Jennings Quotes

Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

Jazz Jennings

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• 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

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• I have saved $1,638,580 over my four years. That may not seem like a lot, faced with our deficit, but multiply it by 435 members of the House - and then the senators get three times as much - and you are adding up several millions in savings.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • May
  • House

• I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Food

• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Family
  • Very
  • Religions

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Work
  • Democracy
  • Journalism

• The team with the best players wins.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Team
  • Best
  • Players

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

  

  Randall Terry
  • World
  • Power
  • Interesting

• I'm pretty stubborn.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Pretty
  • Stubborn

• I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Everyone
  • London
  • Calling

• All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • God
  • Me
  • Never

• An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • World
  • Peace

• I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Home
  • Company
  • Puppy

• Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Leadership

• People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Content

• But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

  

  John Donne
  • Color

• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence

• What are you doing to magnify and grow your business? What are you doing for yourself? You have to self-motivate. I had to learn a million things on Google until I was able to meet people who I could partner with for help.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.

  

  Moyez G. Vassanji
  • Wise
  • Magic
  • Hands

• Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.

  

  Jazz Jennings