Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
