Lolo Jones Quotes
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think you're supposed to say an ambulance man or a footballer or a soldier or something like that, and I told all my mother's friends that I wanted to be Minister for Health. She was mortified, needless to say.
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He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.
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Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.
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If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
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Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.
