Lesley Nicol Quotes
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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India is my kid sister.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
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Fans are awesome.
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Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.
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If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
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The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.
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I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.
