Jazz Jennings Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average person doesn't know really what's going on in the pension system. They know their taxes are too high; they know we've got a deficit. But getting that message out and helping the people of Illinois really understand what's going on, that's hard.
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I really just want to spread my love and happiness toward other people.
