Jazz Jennings Quotes
I've always known exactly who I am, but growing up has always been a struggle. I've even been called an 'it.'
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.
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Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
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I've always known exactly who I am, but growing up has always been a struggle. I've even been called an 'it.'
