Tavi Gevinson Quotes
If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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True confidence leaves no room for jealousy. When you know your are great, you have no need to hate.
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
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The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
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Being from Louisiana, I'm very familiar with the heat and what it can do to you if you don't take care of your body.
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If I'm thrifting, and I find this great dress, but it won't fit me, and I won't grow into it because I'm impossibly tiny, I don't want to let it sit there. I'll buy it and send it to a friend.
