Jazz Jennings Quotes

I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.

Jazz Jennings

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.

Joe Torre

SometimesQuickTriggerUmpires

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

Robert Shea

OrganizationPrinciplesMoreOriginal

Just being able to grind, day in and day out. You have to be a different kind of person to not just do the workouts, but to not make money for months at a time.

Robbie Lawler

TimeMoneyDayYouGrindPerson

Usher is so innovative - he's a great performer, a great entertainer.

Romeo Santos

GreatHeEntertainerPerformerUsher

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Rudyard Kipling

YouNeverHimPaidGetAgain

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

LifePoliticsPeopleTryingBecome

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Mike Krzyzewski

EgoWantIndividualCollectiveEven

Once I made the decision to make art despite the obstacles and to make this my priority, things just opened up for me.

Mickalene Thomas

ArtDecisionMeObstaclesUpThings

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

Lucy Alibar

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My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

Chirlane McCray

LifeFamilyHomeSchoolBlackWhite

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Confucius

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

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