Jackie Jackson Quotes
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
