Vernon Jordan Quotes
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Quotes to Explore
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, singing and dancing. It was an interesting dichotomy in our house.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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The Disney Channel puts out movies, like, every couple of months.
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You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
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Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.
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I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.
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To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
