Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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Everyone should just be exactly who they are.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
