Jenna Talackova quotes

Jenna Talackova quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.”
-- Jenna Talackova

Source : "Transgender Miss Universe contestant devastated by rules row, she says" By Marina Landis, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2012.

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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
“I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.”
“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
“I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced - and I think there's a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.”
“I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.”
“Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.”
“We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.”
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“I think things happened the way they did for a reason”
“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”

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