#told

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. ↗

— Joan Jett

#child #could #defined #follow #i

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. ↗

— Jewel

#ever #i #ideal #only #then

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know? ↗

— Jewel

#care #children #day #every #every day

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying. ↗

— Daniel Johns

#doctor #dying #got #i #i think

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. ↗

— Jack Johnson

#chicken #friend #got #him #i

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#caught #got #hail #i #jackass

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#me #nobody #poetry #put #read

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better #carlton #conversation #days #everyone

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#back #coach #come #decisions #did

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#because #billy #caught #cheating #children