Gail Devers Quotes
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.Gail Devers
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
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It's not rocket science: The best ads tell great stories. They look and feel like the content you're already consuming. They invite you in. They make you laugh. They teach you something. They also sell.
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I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging.
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
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Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
