Janet Mock Quotes

I get invited to a lot of college campuses, and administrators think it's going to be a lecture on 'trans-ness' or whatever. But when young people get there, their questions are about just life.

Janet Mock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

LifePeopleCollegeThinkQuestions

When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.

Joe Bastianich

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Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings regarding the tragic character.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

John McEnroe

GreatPeopleProudThinkTennis

I am very fortunate, very grateful for everything that has happened to me, everything I've done, all the opportunities, so I'm very happy.

Rodrigo Santoro

GratefulI AmHappyMeOpportunities

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Mike Huckabee

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Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

Mike Johanns

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Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

Lisa Leslie

GoalsAchievingJustThose

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Dionne Warwick

HopeServicePeopleMoreBeing Human

I don't have any shame.

Conrad Black

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I just fell into the Dylanesque idea of recording. He is real fast.

Bob Seger

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People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

Alice Munro

LifePastPeopleWritingNowKind

That's when it really came together for me that I was in a Bond film, to have my own spy car!

Rick Yune

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