Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.Florence Griffith Joyner
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
Banks -
It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
Bear Grylls -
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
Gabriella Wilde -
Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
Zac Goldsmith -
If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
Gail Sheehy -
The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
Ted Nugent
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill -
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar -
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
Taylor Swift -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
Adam Clayton U2 -
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy -
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
L.A. Reid -
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.
Lana Del Rey -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
Pat Paulsen -
Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
Barbara Coloroso -
It's wonderful to see parents come together and openly support their LGBTQ kids at my shows.
Hayley Kiyoko -
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
Aaron Sorkin -
The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner