#cord

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#achieve #anywhere #expectations #genius #get

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA. ↗

— Marion Jones

#career #compete #couple #hopefully #more

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label. ↗

— Norah Jones

#demos #done #get #gigs #i

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted. ↗

— Norah Jones

#distracted #get #home #really #record

In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#affirmed #behalf #europe #first #foundations

There's not a platinum record hanging in my house anywhere. It doesn't exist here. I'm over it. They're all in the garage, wrapped up in bubblewrap. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#exist #garage #hanging #here #house

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way. ↗

— David Justice

#ever #hank #home #home run #i

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

#broken #games #going #hope #i

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape. ↗

— Jay-Z

#been #by the time #first #got #had

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy III

#family #i #massachusetts #nation #proud