Quotes by Zoey Tur - Page 1

I always felt like a fraud.
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Fraud
Always Like Felt
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I think women make better pilots.
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Pilots
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Transgender people really are misunderstood.
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Transgender
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2014 was a good year for transgender rights.
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Transgender
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Flying as Bob, there was always stress involved.
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Flying
Stress
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There's diversity in nature, so why not the media?
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Why Not
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I tell the truth. That's my training as a reporter.
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Reporter
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When I was going through transition, I didn't push it on everyone.
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Transition
Push
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One thing I quickly discovered as a female pilot - ditch the heels!
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Female
Heels
Discovered
Ditch
Pilot
Quickly
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The Jewish Orthodox community is playing footsie with the alt-right.
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Orthodox
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In covering breaking news, there's no better way than using a helicopter.
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Covering
Better Way
Breaking
Helicopter
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That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.
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Shut Up
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When you're living a lie, the scariest thing is to be alone with your thoughts.
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Scariest
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I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.
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Chaos
Norm
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I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.
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Reported
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I came out to be on television as a person, as a woman. And this can be a great thing for my community.
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Great Thing
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Television has played an important role in normalizing the experiences of gay men and lesbians in America.
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Important Role
Lesbians
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Instead of doing what everybody else does and sue the city of Los Angeles, I decided I was going to run for mayor.
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Everybody Else
Mayor
Sue
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I'm not loved by GLAAD or by HRC. I'm not going to be a spokesman for those groups, which are based on fundraising.
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Fundraising
Spokesman
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If what the transgender movement seeks is acceptance, association with the Kardashian circus is the last thing it needs.
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Acceptance
Association
Circus
Transgender
Seeks
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Trying to erase 53 years of being a macho aggressive guy to trying to be a woman, and this is greatest challenge of my life.
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Aggressive
Erase
Macho
Life My Life Woman
Greatest Challenge
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I was told I'd never work again, but once you come out, it's like someone turns on the lights, and your life will be different.
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Life Work Will
Life Work Your
Be Different
Lights
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I love breaking news. And I was always trying to create the new, the next thing in television news. So I was the first to do overnight news.
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Television News
Love Always New
Breaking
Next Thing
Overnight
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Everything about the Kardashian family's public image centers around shock and dysfunction - the very image the trans people are trying to shed.
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Dysfunction
Public Image
Shock
Centers
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We filed suit against YouTube before the Google purchase. At the time I went after YouTube, I thought it was a small company ripping off our copyrights.
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Youtube
Purchase
Ripping
Suit
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While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
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Entertainment
Marginalized
Mere
Reducing
Television
Exploit
Hardships
Help
Reinforce
Stereotypes
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When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They've built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders - and then they say I have to monitor them?
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Copyright
Thieves
Youtube
Backs
Billion
Huge Audience
Monitor
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I am not covering stories as a transgender reporter. I'm a reporter who is transgender. Otherwise, it would be like having a black reporter only cover stories about blacks or a Hispanic reporter covering stories about Hispanics.
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Covering
Hispanic
Transgender
Blacks
Reporter
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I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.
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Exposed
Models
Role Models
Age Today Me
Early Age
Very Early Age
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On May 6, 2013, I started hormone replacement therapy and began transitioning. I was very depressed, which is not uncommon for people with gender dysphoria. Two hours after my first estrogen injection, my depression went away for the first time in my life.
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Therapy
Uncommon
Life Time My Life
Life Time May
Depressed
Replacement
Transitioning
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If someone asks about sexual reassignment surgery, you are supposed to say, 'Why are we talking about that?' But I am a post-op transsexual. And I am a reporter. If you can explain and talk about it, you demystify it. And if you demystify it, it's not an issue.
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Surgery
Reporter
Explain
Sexual
Issue
Supposed
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I'm so much more at ease now than when I was flying as Bob. Then, I was OCD about everything, always checking and looking for things. But flying as a female is effortless. I'm still checking traffic, instruments, and the radios, but it's easier to multitask, and flying is fun.
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Bob
Ease
Female
Flying
Instruments
Traffic
Always Fun Looking
Checking
Multitask
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I know the way this city works. We have one of the most corrupt cities in the country. The reason it's so corrupt is because everybody thinks it's honest, and it's not. You know the truth when you go to Chicago. The difference here in Los Angeles is you believe it's honest - and that's dangerous.
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Chicago
Cities
Los Angeles
Angeles
Corrupt
Los
Thinks
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