Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Quotes to Explore
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
Yuna -
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson -
I studied Morse code.
Adam Driver -
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
Callie Khouri
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson -
I always drive like a madman.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
Natasha Calis -
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle -
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
Nancy Keenan -
In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
Adam Johnson -
I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel -
Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
Tammy Duckworth -
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
Usher -
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
Walter Cronkite
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When I first got a call for the movie, I couldn't believe that I am doing a film opposite Akshay Kumar. He is such a big superstar.
Amy Jackson -
All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
Adam Grant -
I want my flowers while I'm alive.
Chubby Checker -
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
Veronica Roth -
Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee