"The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“We spend our life until weâ€™re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.”
“I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.”
“We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.”
“I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.”

Source : Jennifer Lynch (2011). “The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer”, p.156, Simon and Schuster
“To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.”
“Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.”

Source : "Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind on stand-up, improv and Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Prachi Gupta, www.salon.com. January 19, 2014.
“Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.”
“Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.”

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