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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#how #i #making #olympic #olympic team

Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal. ↗

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#american #away #being #best #body

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. ↗

— Jane Kaczmarek

#bizarre #crazy #english #months #people

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

#chechnya #civilized #conduct #decades #develop

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#american #citizen #citizen kane #day #even

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#artist #civilization #country #culture #follow

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#back #been #card #carry #coke

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#get #people #realize #sometimes #them

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#big #future #huge #lies #medium-sized

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#book #frozen #sea #serve #should