Laverne Cox Quotes

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

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• Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Done
  • Down
  • Flying

• I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Food
  • Person

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Egypt

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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  • Business
  • Revolution

• Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Goal
  • Enough
  • Popular

• I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Star
  • Idea
  • Just

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
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  • Deep

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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  • Look

• I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

  

  T.I.
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• I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.

  

  Inara George
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  • I Can

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
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  • Possible

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
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  • Music
  • Why

• But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

  

  John Anderson
  • Time
  • Design

• For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Different
  • Important

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
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  • Words
  • Same

• What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

  

  Laverne Cox
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