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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
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We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.
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I did some things, including the Body Issue. I'm not going to say I regret doing that, but I think now if you asked me to do it, I would probably say no.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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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.
