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.

Nicole Maines

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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.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Today
  • House
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Bond

• 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.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• 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.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Man

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• We gon' be around for a long time.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Gone
  • Long Time

• 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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Larry David
  • She
  • Experience

• How should I avoid to be her slave, Whose subtle art invisibly can wreath My fetters of the very air I breath?

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Art
  • Air

• Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal 'art coefficient', contained in the work.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Work
  • Art
  • Missing

• I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

  

  Laurence Housman
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • School

• 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.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Good
  • America

• I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Taken
  • Dance

• Ginza! Where I've done two Chanel towers and Louis Vuitton and Dior stores. I just feel at home there.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Done
  • Home

• There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

  

  Nellie McKay

• 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.

  

  Nicole Maines
  • People
  • Convince
  • Transgender