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Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 3, 1962

Topics

Great Dance People I Can Athlete

The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.

Good Better You Nervous Being About

It makes you feel like the pool is yours when you have your family there. You walk up to them and see them crying... and you know they are proud of you.

Family Walk Proud Feel You Pool

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Today Mind Genetics Explanation Most

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Marriage Equality People Husband Gay

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

People Direction Weird Comedy Gone

Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.

Jayne Mansfield

Men Hands Legs Two Eight Creatures

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

People You Say Want Matter Downfall

When you're finished, bars are not inherently profitable. You got to work at them to make them profitable.

Work You Got Profitable Finished

Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo.

Girl Little Her Only Embryo Having

The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12 years old: it set my life on a different path. Next, I read 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy, then 'The Silmarillion' and Homers 'The Odyssey' and every Greek/Roman/Viking myth book I could get my hands on. Pretty heavy reading for a 12 year old.

Life Friend Mother Path Me Reading

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Men War Suffering Me Reality Movies

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Good You Crisis Kind Up Any

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