Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I like being unconventional.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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I don't have many friends.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often.
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What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
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When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.
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There are a lot of other people that really play a significant role in helping you become an Olympian.
