Jillian Michaels Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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I'd rather entertain people than offend them.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
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Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
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I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.
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In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.
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Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
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Seeing my two kids together is a magical feeling.
