Laverne Cox Quotes

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

Laverne Cox

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• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • City
  • Diversity

• 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Age

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • People
  • Art
  • Movie

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Science
  • New
  • Year

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• I think honestly, SOME people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. People can misconstrue closeness for love. People can feel connected, they bond. I’m not saying all gay people are confused. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that’s them.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Desire
  • Feel

• I don't mind playing someone's girlfriend or wife if I have something to say, if I bring something to the picture, if I can be strong and powerful and say smart things. If not, then it's just boring.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Wife

• To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response.

  

  John O. Brennan

• Perhaps we as a culture have so emphasized the sexual dimension of maleness and femaleness that we have lost sight of the power of friendship

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Culture
  • Friendship
  • Sexual

• You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons. I’d been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I’ve learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Experience
  • Learned
  • Dragons

• Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

  

  Laverne Cox
  • Control
  • Desire