Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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I love hearing old Bob Marley recordings that he did before he made the versions everybody knows.

Jim James

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In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

Jim Parsons

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I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

Joe Carnahan

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I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Andy Kaufman

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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Jeanne Moreau

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The BET definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.

Tomi Lahren

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The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so.

Tony Bennett

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I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

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If a song feels good to me, it's not very difficult to make it my own.

Dianne Reeves

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My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

Deborah Moggach

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Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Colin Firth

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