Joyce Giraud (Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica) Quotes
Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
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The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
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In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.
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Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
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I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.
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True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.
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I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.
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What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.
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I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.