Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

John Oates

DaySchoolWaitHigh SchoolGrow

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Robert Metcalfe

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I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.

Sonny Bill Williams

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The little things amount to big things.

Robin S. Sharma

Little ThingsLittleThingsBig

I'm so old, I don't buy green bananas any more.

Lou Holtz

GreenMoreOldBuyBananasAny

You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What I've discovered is you kind of wind up becoming your parents, which is also a cliche in itself. My father, despite the fact that he's been dead for over 25 years, he's been a huge influence on me.

Loudon Wainwright III

FatherParentsMeWindThinkYou

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Lois Capps

TodayChildrenAmericaEarlyMore

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

Josefa Iloilo

StrengthDiversityHappyReachNeed

No matter what kind of problem I've run into, there's always been a solution for it. Now, obviously, there will be a point where there aren't any more solutions, and I'll have used up my time. We all do.

Dick Cheney

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For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.

Christopher McQuarrie

StoryYouAudienceEverythingPay

My grandfather is from Peshawar; he was born there.

Arjun Kapoor

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Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.

Allison Pearson

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