Jazz Jennings Quotes

In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.

Jazz Jennings

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Live
  • Think
  • House

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Play
  • Like
  • Going

• I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Messy

• Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Women
  • True

• You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.

  

  Randy Travis
  • You
  • Artist
  • Project

• I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

  

  Beck
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Mission

• The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Power
  • Man
  • Law

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Lives
  • Worried

• I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Difference

• I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Religion
  • Pigeonhole
  • Mathangi

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Political
  • Best
  • Legal

• There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • School
  • Kids
  • Parents

• If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

  

  Phil Crosby
  • Time
  • Product
  • Defects

• We are a big economy, and we must, therefore, show that we can manage it, but not only manage it, but that can transform it so that this economy works for all of our people so that everyone feels that they have a stake in this economy.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People

• With Trump, because of the kind of seemingly violent way that he talks about things and because he's on Twitter almost every single morning, I think it brings down the respect that we have for the White House and for the Oval Office in particular, so the expectation is anything can happen, and that becomes the norm, which is unfortunate.

  

  Joe Morton
  • House
  • Respect
  • Single

• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Brave

• 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Down

• In the end, everyone just deserves the right to be their authentic selves, just be who they are.

  

  Jazz Jennings