Gail Devers Quotes

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Short

• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Where
  • Manager
  • My Own

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Job
  • First
  • Old

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Time
  • Concerns

• Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Future

• Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

  

  Lord Melbourne

• People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother