Katrina Adams Quotes
I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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Joining NASA was very exciting, but it was the hardest decision I have had to make in my life.
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I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.
