Nicole Maines (Nicole Amber Maines) Quotes
I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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I've had some experience in this arena. So it wasn't foreign to me to have a woman say she doesn't want to see me anymore.
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How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
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Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.
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The law does not allow the FTC to just snap its fingers and temporarily block a merger.
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I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
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I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.
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Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I hope I can help convince people there that being transgender is not a big deal and that we are just average people trying to go to school, work, and live good lives.
