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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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I truly did feel that I owed it to my parents, my grandparents, to do whatever it was that I wanted, because if I wasn't happy, if I wasn't being true to myself, then I wasn't living fully. They had given up so much so that I could live at the level that so many people are just automatically born into.
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Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.
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We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
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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.
