Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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  Abbi Jacobson
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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
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• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Think

• I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

  

  FKA twigs
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• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Family
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• When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

  

  Young Thug
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• I'm not a big sports fan.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
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• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
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• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

  

  Brett Kavanaugh
  • School
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• I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Up
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• I don't like to lay down on my food - it's not good for you. I like to take a walk, then meditate and read the Bible.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Good
  • Food
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• Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • School
  • High
  • Sports