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 are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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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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In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
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I've had many students over the years, sometimes even very sophisticated students, who will be writing and will hit a wall. Often I find it's because they're working out of sequence. Maybe some people can do that, but I don't think that's how fiction works. It's a discovery.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
