Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

Jo Cox

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In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Robert Powell

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Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.

Michael Hayden

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There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

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As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

Mona Eltahawy

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I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

Milana Vayntrub

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When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Jason Mantzoukas

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Jonathan Sacks

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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Ariel Dorfman

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What is tricky for those hoping to utilize such weapons is that TATP bombs are quite difficult to make because their ingredients, when combined, are highly unstable and can explode easily if mishandled.

Peter Bergen

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When I'm in that studio, I feel like I'm the king of the world. If I lose that, I'm going to lose a lot.

Nicky Jam

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