Janet Jackson Quotes
I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
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Oil could complicate domestic politics in countries with too much of it - there is a reason economists talk about 'the curse of oil,' and dictatorships have thrived in countries with abundant natural resources.
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
