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Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 21, 1959 - September 21, 1998

Topics

School Hair Way Things Wear Leg

Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.

Energy Become Neighbors Europe Gas

As much as possible, I put my family first.

Family Possible First Much Put

People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.

People Decisions Judge You Look

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

Life Step Forward Back Sometimes

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

Design You Be Nice Nice Real Open

I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?

Good Engineering Learn Physics Why

It's just a very different process from maybe working one or two days a week doing one or two scenes a day versus sustaining a performance over two hours or so eight times a week.

Day Performance Process Doing Week

He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time.

Mother Time Mom Doing Clothes Long

I'm always looking for instances of people doing things for and with each other for pleasure, for passion, for camaraderie, from kindness. It's the anthropology of people figuring how to punctuate life with the lyrical.

Life Kindness Passion People Looking

The minority yields to the majority!

Minority Majority Yields

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

Great People Baby Flying Care You

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Clifford Geertz

Science Perception Deep Think False

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