Jazz Jennings Quotes
I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.
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You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey...
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I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
