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Marion Jones Quotes

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: October 12, 1975

Topics

Age Sports Child Champion Involved

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

Good Anything Things Berries Recipes

I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.

Fear Hope New Things Energy Doing

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

Jeremy Stoppelman

Thought Entrepreneur Want Kid Month

Libertarian principles are very simple, but you can't violate any of them and still call yourself Libertarian.

Simple Yourself You Principles Call

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Car Bike Broken Remember House Real

The minute a collective alliance fails to live up to its agreement to collective defence, then from that moment on, everybody is on the run.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Live Moment Run Up Collective

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Strong Information Right Line Point

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Love Good Death Man Good Man Wings

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

Life Spring Development Sound Own

What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

You React Way Significance Your

I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.

Brantley Gilbert

People Company Got Tests Publishing

Parenthood always comes as a shock. Postpartum blues? Postpartum panic is more like it. We set out to have a baby; what we get is a total take-over of our lives.

Polly Berrien Berends

Parenting Baby Blues More Out Panic

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