Jazz Jennings Quotes

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

Jazz Jennings

Recitation: by Male by Female

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We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

Jen Sincero

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We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

Sterling K. Brown

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I don't really know if things go from one life to another. I don't know if there's another life after this. I don't want to know.

Shyam Selvadurai

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The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Robert Doisneau

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What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

Tony Bellew

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It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

Tony Rock

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Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

Russel Honore

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I've been voted one of Australia's 50 national treasures. I've even had my face on an Australian stamp - the only non-Australian to do so, apart from the Queen, of course.

Russell Crowe

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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Milan Kundera

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Being a TV star is a great gift. Everyone treats you royally.

Judy Sheindlin

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I played with Prince in 2010... the America tour. The one with Misty Copeland dancing on top of the piano! But Prince played the piano on that song. But I played two dates with him on that tour. When we played the gig, every couple of songs, Prince would change his clothes.

Jon Batiste

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Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.

Dick Dale

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