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" I just - I come from a very little town where the militarization of the police force is a very real issue. "

Jonathan Van Ness

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" I'm really big on the gym and yoga. I'm at the gym at least six days. That is just getting there and creating those endorphins and sweating. And that routine also keeps me grounded in spite of whatever my life looks like. "

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" How you take care of yourself is how the world sees you. "

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" I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's icing on the cake. "

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" I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time. "

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" I was the first male cheerleader of my high school; it's very hard to embarrass me - you have to do a lot. "

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" I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out. "

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" I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because of doing hair, I've heard so many life stories. "

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" Coming from a town of 30,000 people on the Mississippi River, having 'Queer Eye' in 2003 through 2007 when I was in high school was really important. "

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" I remember saying I wanted to be a cosmetologist when I was really young. "

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" In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged. "

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" I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person. "

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" If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram. "

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" I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys. "

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" Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should! "

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" You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great. "

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" Confidence is sexy. "

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" I think I've been in a lot of really uncomfortable situations, and I think when you're in uncomfortable situations, it kind of polishes you up a little. It shines you up. "

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" A song like 'Tears Dry on Their Own' is really sad, but it's hopeful, too - that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart. "

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" When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles. "

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" I'm good at following my own grooming advice. "

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" My biggest secret is that I don't over-wash my hair. I wash it twice a week at the most, unless I'm on set every day. "

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" I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut. "

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" I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength. "

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" My podcast 'Getting Curious' keeps me really busy, which I love. "

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" Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized. "

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" I think that I'm, like, an introverted extrovert. At the end of the day, when I get done doing hair at the salon or shooting a day of 'Queer Eye' or whatever, I definitely want to come home and, like, order pasta and sit with my cat or just one person or no people. "

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" I used to be pretty hard on myself, like, if I didn't like a haircut I did on someone, I would think about it a lot and second-guess myself. But after therapy and a lot of work, I know how to dust myself off a lot faster, and those things don't knock me down as much as they used to. "

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" Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly. "

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