Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
Karen Finerman
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
Frances McDormand
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
Dan Brown
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
Nathan Fielder
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
Yolandi Visser
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
Lloyd Alexander
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It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.
Charles Dickens
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Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.
J. I. Packer
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I've had asthma my entire life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee