Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
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Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
