Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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CommunityPeopleMeHelpBackWant

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

Joey Lawrence

WorkJourneyEnoughCareerAchieve

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

John Dos Passos

PeopleChooseCareersThem

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

John Mellencamp

HandsNothingMeanEverythingLittle

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

Amartya Sen

WorkPreventionStartedAlso

It's one thing to work women into your talking points. It's another to tell them how you are going to educate their kids, how you are going to ensure they get health care, how we are going to rebuild infrastructure, how they are going to get equal pay.

Stephanie Cutter

WorkWomenHealthCareTalkingYou

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Tom Stoppard

CharacterFindingYouKnowUpWell

Don't sell your publishing.

Michelle Phillips

SellYourPublishing

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

Michelle Wolf

GoodThinkBetterYouFirstNeed

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam.

Mildred Dresselhaus

MusicSchoolPracticeMeThinkKnow

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

Lloyd Dorfman

LeadershipFutureHopeHeartSupport

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

Jonathan Brandis

LiveWeekendYouLookGoYoung

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Chris Patten

DemocracyRightJerksEverybody

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