Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.
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There weren't many options growing up, so I would wear whatever possible. I once saw a little boy wearing Jordan sneakers in a movie... and that made me dream.
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
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People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
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When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.
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I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
