"I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#Ucla Quotes #Years Quotes #Going Away Quotes

“I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand”
“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.”
“There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop comes to New York, teams up with racist cop, together they fight crime..."”
“Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.”

Source : Rick Jarow (1995). “Creating the Work You Love: Courage, Commitment, and Career”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.”
“There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.”
“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.”
“A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.”

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