Joan Ganz Cooney Quotes
Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
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I was a model for eight years. That's the deal: People look. But I didn't like being looked at and never seen.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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I'm a 'what's next?' guy. I don't know what that is, but I'm excited to find out and put the same kind of energy into it as I put into track.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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'Star Trek' seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another.
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I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.
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Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-year-old granddaughter whose first words were 'Big Bird.'
