Carrie Jones Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
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One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
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I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line
