Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.

Andrea Riseborough

WomanFilmShowMostAny

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Michael Jackson

WorkEducationWorldWatching

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Steve Blank

BusinessDayProblemCustomerTrue

Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

Steve Erickson

BestEndYearMadTalkThrough

If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.

Mary Dillon

WomenThinkFindWantWillBarriers

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.

Martina Hingis

TimeStoryThinkSometimesTrueUp

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

Mitch Kapor

FamilyIslandRussianGeorgianVia

I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.

Lorde

StarsLivePeopleThinkFeelLook

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Dinah Sheridan

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I'm just becoming more and more aware of this truly profound responsibility that we carry as individuals. And it's a responsibility not only to ourselves and to our families, but to the billions of people who still have to come in the future who will be dealing with our legacy.

Chris Jordan

FutureResponsibilityPeopleLegacy

Hug your mom. Hug your mom and thank your mom.

Brian Tyree Henry

MomHugYourThank

I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.

Sheila Heti

FriendMoneySoulMemoryWriting

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