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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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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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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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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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
