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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I read part of it all the way through.
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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.
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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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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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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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I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
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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.
