Gail Devers Quotes
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.Gail Devers
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Just having the whole control over your body is so important when you're modelling - to just be able to know exactly what you look like and what you're doing.
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My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers
