Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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If it's a day to indulge, I like to have a burrito or a steak.
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
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I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
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The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
