Marion Jones Quotes
I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I'm not an expert on the arms race.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
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There's great participation, there's great enthusiasm and there's a great calm in the country ... ... It will strengthen our democracy, and that will allow the country to continue forward.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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Spiritual practices are ways of becoming awake and staying awake to God.
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I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
