Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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Baseball, however, is the most individual of team sports: In perfectly discernible packets the game reduces to one batter versus one pitcher, with each assuming responsibility for the other, every matchup a still photograph that flipped together form the moving picture we call nine innings.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.
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The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.
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I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.
