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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When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.
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Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
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If I start thinking about who's on the opposing team and I've got to play well against that team, then the next night when we play against guys without the big names, then you don't play so well. So you try and keep a consistent approach.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
