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Lizzie Velasquez Quotes
Lizzie Velasquez Quotes
Lizzie Velasquez
American
Activist
Born:
Mar 13
,
1989
Day
Life
Me
Myself
People
You
I normally don't ever talk about my dating life or anything super personal in the press just because I feel like there's this fine line between what to keep to myself and what to share.
Lizzie Velasquez
Life
Myself
Press
I Feel
I Feel Like
Fine
Super
Fine Line
About
Dating
Share
Feel
Between
Like
Talk
Because
Line
Normally
Personal
Just
Just Because
Anything
Keep
Ever
I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long, so I get pretty upset when people accuse me of being anorexic.
Lizzie Velasquez
Day
Me
People
Cake
Long
All Day
Eat
Pretty
Small
Anorexic
Noodles
Chicken
Get
Accuse
Being
Upset
Pizza
Ice
Ice Cream
Chocolate
Cream
Pop
Sweets
Portions
Friends who were so supportive absolutely made my high school - that could have been traumatic - they definitely made it bearable.
Lizzie Velasquez
School
Made
Definitely
High
High School
Bearable
Could
Absolutely
Supportive
Were
Been
Friends
Who
Traumatic
Being a 13-year-old girl who is constantly picked on is unbearable.
Lizzie Velasquez
Girl
Constantly
Unbearable
Picked
Being
Who
I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited.
Lizzie Velasquez
Myself
Pound
Weigh
Excited
Get
Gain
Really
Regularly
Even
I can pretty much make a joke out of any situation, I'm quick on my feet and I love to laugh. I am the biggest girly girl. I love to get dressed up, go shopping, and getting my nails done.
Lizzie Velasquez
Love
Shopping
I Am
Girl
Joke
Situation
I Can
Laugh
Out
I Love
Pretty
Dressed
Girly
Nails
Feet
Make
Am
Go
Up
Quick
Get
Any
Done
Getting
Biggest
Much
I make it a point to let myself have bad days on a regular basis.
Lizzie Velasquez
Myself
Bad
Bad Days
Point
Days
Make
Regular
Regular Basis
Basis
In 2013, I did a TEDx talk in Austin. Until then I had sort of a following online but this was completely different - it went viral.
Lizzie Velasquez
Viral
Following
Online
Had
Talk
Until
Sort
Austin
Did
Different
Then
People think cyberbullying will never end, so why try to fix it? Which I completely understand. I will be the first to tell you that it's not going to end. But if you start making the change and start making the steps, over time change will happen.
Lizzie Velasquez
Time
You
Change
People
Try
Will
First
Think
Tell
Be The First
Never
Steps
Over
Understand
Making
End
Fix
Going
Happen
Which
Cyberbullying
Why
Start
I credit a lot of learning to love myself to my faith, my family and my friends. Everyone needs someone you can look to for constant support, who you never have to impress, to share your happy and sad days.
Lizzie Velasquez
Sad
Love
Faith
Myself
Needs
Family
You
Learning
Happy
Impress
Everyone
Constant
Someone
Never
Share
Support
Days
Look
Lot
Friends
To Love
Your
Who
Credit
One thing I did was to create a Love Yourself List. I wrote down everything I like about myself, and put it on my bathroom mirror. Then I read it until I believed it. Any time I compared myself to others, and felt negative about myself, I'd go back to that list.
Lizzie Velasquez
Love
Time
Myself
Love Yourself
Yourself
Negative
Mirror
Down
Others
Back
Bathroom
Everything
One Thing
About
Put
Like
Until
Wrote
Read
Felt
Go
Did
List
Any
Then
Create
Compared
Believed
Thing
I was actually so small that my baby clothes were actually doll clothes from Toys 'R' Us because that's all that would fit me!
Lizzie Velasquez
Me
Clothes
Baby
Would
Small
Toys
Because
Were
Doll
Fit
Us
Actually
Everyone knows life throws you curve balls, in my case it's like life throws me giant boulders.
Lizzie Velasquez
Life
Me
You
Everyone
Giant
Case
Throws
Like
Knows
Balls
Curve
I taught myself how to be a speaker on Google. I just Googled 'how to be a motivational speaker.'
Lizzie Velasquez
Motivational
Myself
Google
How
Just
Taught
Speaker
You'd assume I was being bullied a tonne at school and it was horrible, but in reality, I really was getting bullied everywhere else.
Lizzie Velasquez
You
Reality
School
Assume
Else
Everywhere
Horrible
Bullied
Getting
Being
Really
You don't have to live up to anyone else's standards, you don't have to look like anyone else, you don't have to compare yourself to anyone else. You being you is enough, and you putting your positivity and good vibes out into the world, once you get to that point absolutely everything will fall into place.
Lizzie Velasquez
Good
You
Yourself
World
Will
Fall
Vibes
Live
Enough
Else
Everything
Once
Positivity
Out
Point
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Good Vibes
Putting
Like
Look
Up
Get
Being
Anyone
Anyone Else
Place
Your
Standards
Compare
I have a passion for helping others and making a difference in the world. I take life one day at a time and make the best of it every chance that I get.
Lizzie Velasquez
Life
Time
Best
Day
World
Passion
One Day At A Time
Every
Others
One Day
Take
Make
Making
Making A Difference
Get
Difference
Helping
Every Chance
Chance
Bullying needs to have more attention, and there needs to be more open communication in schools to make kids feel comfortable enough to speak up.
Lizzie Velasquez
Bullying
Needs
Communication
Speak
Enough
Kids
More
Open
Attention
Feel
Schools
Make
Comfortable
Up
Bullying in 2015 has a whole new look. It doesn't ever end. It's 24/7.
Lizzie Velasquez
Bullying
New
Look
End
Whole
Ever
Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.
Lizzie Velasquez
Family
Honestly
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Kindergarten
No Idea
Had
Idea
Until
Just
Different
Started
Whether it's your personal life, your work life, your school life, your confidence, everything will fit once you believe in yourself.
Lizzie Velasquez
Life
Work
You
Confidence
Yourself
School
Believe In Yourself
Will
Personal Life
Believe
Everything
Once
School Life
Fit
Personal
Whether
Your
But after the TED talk went viral, I called Sara Hirsh Bordo, who had produced TEDxAustinWomen, to ask her advice. She told me she'd like to do a documentary, and that we should work together on anti-bullying efforts.
Lizzie Velasquez
Work
Me
Together
Advice
Viral
Had
Like
Talk
Documentary
She
Efforts
After
Work Together
Ask
Produced
Should
Who
Her
Ted