Jane Poynter Quotes
It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.
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There is always pressure in football.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!
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I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.
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My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
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It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.
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I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
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It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and to share the marvelous moments with as well.
