Picabo Street Quotes
My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.
