Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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I don't mind if people say I was on 'American Idol,' because I was, and that is a part of my past, and I'm super proud of it, but I don't want that to be all there is to me.
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
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We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
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Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
