Jamie Clayton Quotes
I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I am a Zionist.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
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When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.
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I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.
