Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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I'm very interested in science.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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I'm so secluded. Very alone.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.
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I was always trying to look modest and natural. I don't like women who come into the lab and you see immediately that it took them two hours to dress in the morning.
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President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'
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We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
