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.
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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.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.
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I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.
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It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience.
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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.
