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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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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'I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I'd had an epiphany that night about using stencils and she told me to stop taking that drug 'cos it's bad for your heart.'
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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.
