Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
Dabney Coleman -
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I had no desire to crash a man's world.
Ida Lupino
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai -
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
M. J. Rose -
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
Walter Cronkite -
I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
Hannah Ware
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
Ichiro Suzuki -
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
Karen Allen -
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
Gary Becker -
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer -
In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
H. R. McMaster -
I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
Flo Rida
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
Darrell Lance Abbott -
Just to be able to go into Spring Training and know you have a chance to make the final team is something you look forward to. The first year going, you know you don't have a chance. To know it could be different this year and it could be your opportunity, it's just a matter of taking hold of it and going with it.
Andrew Brown -
I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
Arno Penzias -
I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.
John Boyega -
The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee