Florence Griffith Joyner Quotes

One must go for a film with an open mind; a film best impacts you when your mind is a blank page to the film.

I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.

I got a car when I was 16. I didn't even have a driver's license.

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept.

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

I think I can wipe out diabetes.

And I tried it and I felt, I guess I must have been pulled in by the red light of television and now I've been on TV since 1992.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn't initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It's so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed to having something for free.

Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.