Laverne Cox Quotes
I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
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Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
