Jesse Owens Quotes
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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I studied Morse code.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.
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On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.
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I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
