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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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 don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.
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Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
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I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.
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When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message.
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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.
