Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes
I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.
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I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.
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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
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I can't give you a specific number today, in large part because the analysis upon which we would make that determination has not been completed. . . . I think it is fair to say there may be additional costs associated with a farming operation, but it is very difficult to quantify.
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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
