Gail Devers Quotes
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
Gail Devers
