Jessy White Quotes
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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As the coding movement continues to grow, the common narrative of the white male geek as the predominant influencer on geek culture will erode.
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I am scared every day.
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I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.
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The life of a repo man is always intense.
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Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public and supported by public dollars is for me.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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We are sick because our cells are sick.
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I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.
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I just believe that when we work together, wonderful things are going to happen.
