Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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SupportPeopleChampionsPersonMore

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

MeThinkWineFeelYouSecurity

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a way of expressing my feelings, because I didn't have any other outlet.

Matt de la Pena

StylePoetryLovedFeelingsWay

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice, however irresponsible or misleading it may be, to gain traction.

John Yarmuth

OpportunityPeopleVoiceYouCreate

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

WorkAloneArtWaterManJoy

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicTimeArchitectureKindMean

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

Lorrie Moore

LoveLivePeopleYouBadBreathing

Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.

Johnny Marr

TimeGuitarLongLong TimeBeen

The roots of Cuban music are in my head.

Compay Segundo

MusicRootsHeadCuban

I'm a chef, I'm a cook, I was created by this industry, and I like to think I'm giving back. But I'm not giving back because I can make a scallop souffle, I'm giving back because I can make compost.

Arthur Potts Dawson

ChefThinkGivingBackI CanCook

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

Prince Charles

YouBuildingsDownMoreAnything

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Peter Shilton

FootballWillAlwaysBeenSchools

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

Peter Diamandis

FearTravelAirplaneFlyingData

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