Elizabeth Jennings Quotes
When I re-read my past work I can see a development to such an effect, indeed, that some of them no longer seem to be any part of me.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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I was a tomboy.
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The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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The advice I give young people is that you have to pursue something, and you have to have fun along the way.
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I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.
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When I re-read my past work I can see a development to such an effect, indeed, that some of them no longer seem to be any part of me.
