Lynn LaFree quote: "I was originally going to run the 100, the 220 and the 440. But there were going to be heats for the event and I didn't think I could run all three with all the heats without being exhausted. So I dropped the 220, which I probably could have won and ran the 440. As it turned out, had I won the 220 as well, I would have won the team state championship by myself."

That, and my first real serious boyfriend, kind of ended my high school running career. That was pre...
LYNN LAFREE

He was always one of my biggest supporters. My junior year, I was the only girl on the track team an...
LYNN LAFREE

I always hated distances. She loves it, though. We, and her coaches, have to caution her from overdo...
LYNN LAFREE

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
LYNN WESTMORELAND

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a sp...
LYNN MARGULIS

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your poten...
LYNN DAVIES

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
LYNN MARGULIS

You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm...
LYNN COADY

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rin...
LORETTA LYNN

I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN

I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN

You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN

In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN

I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN

God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
LYNN LAVNER

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
LORETTA LYNN

I was extremely impressed with Lauren Miller. She finally had a more consistent match. I think this ...
AARON LYNN

Lauren Jones again is playing well. She had two bad holes that kind of cost her, but if she gets to ...
AARON LYNN

I was more pleased than with our previous matches. We've kind of started to turn it around a little ...
AARON LYNN

This course wasn't easy. There were a lot of places where you could hit a good shot and get yourself...
AARON LYNN

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity whic...
LYNN WHITE

Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.
LYNN MARGULIS

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
LYNN REDGRAVE

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don’t want to tell us...
J. LYNN

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
LORETTA LYNN

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish...
LORETTA LYNN

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
LORETTA LYNN

The best interviews -- like the best biographies -- should sing the strangeness and variety of the h...
LYNN BARBER

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
LYNN SWANN

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the ...
LYNN JOHNSTON

On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space ...
LYNN JOHNSTON

The most profound statements are often said in silence.
LYNN JOHNSTON

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our ...
LYNN COADY

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process...
LYNN COADY

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movie...
LYNN NOTTAGE

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway...
LYNN NOTTAGE

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
LORETTA LYNN

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they wo...
LYNN COADY

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on...
LYNN DAVIES

Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply...
LYNN JURICH

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.
LYNN JOHNSTON

I still do cardiovascular exercises, aerobic exercises, and then strength training, as it's impo...
LYNN DAVIES

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate...
LYNN COADY

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written do...
LYNN ABBEY

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's agel...
LYNN SHELTON

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
LYNN GOOD

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
LORETTA LYNN

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look,...
LYNN REDGRAVE

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belong...
LORETTA LYNN

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
LYNN ABBEY

With the right infrastructure in place, home solar will be recognized publicly as affordable, easy, ...
LYNN JURICH

I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to ...
LYNN JURICH

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.
LYNN DAVIES

What are you up to?”

“Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied.

�...
J. LYNN

As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ...
LYNN COADY

I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
LYNN COLLINS

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
LORETTA LYNN

We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go ...
LYNN JURICH

This is just another example of the administration trying to create the illusion that it's in contro...
BARRY LYNN

Some religious organizations are openly using the hurricane relief efforts to win new converts. If t...
BARRY LYNN

We're picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his alli...
BARRY LYNN

I think it is true that this is the earliest in an election year that we've seen so much use of chur...
BARRY LYNN

This whole contest is just totally inappropriate because of the themes of The Lion, the Witch and th...
BARRY LYNN

I don't think the Constitution prohibits the use of this textbook, but I have real doubts about the ...
BARRY LYNN

[Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are puttin...
BARRY LYNN

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along ...
BARRY LYNN

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wound...
LYNN DOVE

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got...
LYNN DAVIES

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging ...
LYNN COLLINS

If I were to share with you the number of attacks that come into the Duke network every day, you wou...
LYNN GOOD

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON

Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining....
LYNN MARGULIS

Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help you...
LYNN COADY

There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in ...
LYNN COADY

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that ...
LYNN MARGULIS

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nat...
GREG LYNN

Always play to your strengths, whether your strengths are gender-based or just natural aptitude.
LYNN GOOD

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at h...
LORETTA LYNN

I went to work in accounting at Arthur Andersen. At one point, it was the creme de la creme. I wante...
LYNN GOOD

Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got...
LORETTA LYNN

I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're...
LYNN GOOD

Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficia...
LYNN MARGULIS

Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away...
LYNN COADY

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously...
LYNN COADY

You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on ...
LYNN COADY

You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer&...
LYNN COADY

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on wome...
LYNN COADY

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
LYNN ABBEY

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.
LORETTA LYNN

‎"The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always...
LYNN WEINGARTEN

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, a...
LYNN SHELTON

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
LORETTA LYNN

We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We ar...
LYNN COADY

When wireless cellphones first came out, analysts predicted that at peak, it would only replace 5% o...
LYNN JURICH

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
LORETTA LYNN

Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something li...
GREG LYNN

It would be lovely if it was all Right vs. Wrong, Good overcomes Evil - I think most Americans, goin...
LYNN FLEWELLING

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my ...
LORETTA LYNN

Finally! You're here!"
Uh....Do I know you?"
Well, no....But you're here, all the same...
LYNN WEINGARTEN

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent the...
LYNN MARGULIS

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
LYNN COLLINS

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
LYNN ABBEY

An investor in Duke Energy is expecting a dividend payment. That's roughly 70 to 75 percent of t...
LYNN GOOD

Volatility is not something that is a great fit for Duke if you look at the level of dividend we pay...
LYNN GOOD

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the h...
LYNN COADY

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a para...
LYNN ABBEY

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its...
LYNN COADY

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil ...
LYNN WESTMORELAND

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly lang...
LORETTA LYNN

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles...
LYNN NOTTAGE

If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.
LYNN GOOD

The silence was killing me.

And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Ke...
J. LYNN

If you feel like there is going to be an emotional reaction that won't be helpful to resolve the...
LYNN GOOD

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over ...
LYNN COADY

If we are not more efficient, we put ourselves in a position where prices need to rise or profits de...
LYNN GOOD

As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinne...
LYNN STEWARD

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the see...
LYNN NOTTAGE

Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate,...
LYNN GOOD

We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. W...
LYNN COADY

You either have to be first, best, or different.
LORETTA LYNN

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doe...
LYNN LAVNER

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strength...
LYNN JOHNSTON

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's lik...
LYNN JOHNSTON

You don't have to die in order to make a living.
LYNN JOHNSTON

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitt...
LYNN JOHNSTON

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
LYNN JOHNSTON

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about...
LYNN JOHNSTON

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
LYNN HALL

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way...
LYNN JURICH

It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new ...
LYNN SAMUELS

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been em...
LYNN CAINE

I was shocked when they nominated me for five different things,
LORETTA LYNN

His son was so young. We need to make sure what happened to his son doesn't happen to anyone else's ...
LORETTA LYNN

I lost a son, too, so I can relate.
LORETTA LYNN

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piec...
LORETTA LYNN

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.
LORETTA LYNN

In the long run, you make your own luck -- good, bad, or indifferent.
LORETTA LYNN

I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish...
LORETTA LYNN

It's kind of like my first one, ... It's back to real country.
LORETTA LYNN

I just can't wait to come back, but what hurts me most, honey, is having to leave, ... That's home f...
LORETTA LYNN

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
LORETTA LYNN

Nobody wants a fraternity in the center of their neighborhood. How many more headlines about drugs, ...
DAVID LYNN

If your representative in Congress can't explain a vote on abortion or the environment without 'proo...
BARRY LYNN

We must work together to strengthen Jerusalem as a modern, open capital and to foster welcoming, inc...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

Ascertain a trend rather than a reaction ? try not to read too much into economic numbers,
LYNN REASER

By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharin...
GREG LYNN

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your des...
LYNN COADY

One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they&...
LYNN COADY

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES

Somewhere in our cultural subconscious, we crave these figures that are big and strong and unassaila...
LYNN COADY

Our nation's power plant fleet must include a mix of solar, wind, hydro, natural gas and nuclear...
LYNN GOOD

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few...
LYNN ABBEY

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, ...
LYNN COADY

I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anym...
LYNN SHELTON

There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES

I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more...
LYNN GOOD

In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

Fracking has been a real technological change that has caused great innovation in our business, and ...
LYNN GOOD

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too tru...
LYNN COADY

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid t...
LYNN MARGULIS

I think a four-year ban would effectively rule out one Olympic games - a life ban is too harsh. I th...
LYNN DAVIES

While the Index remains below its pre-Katrina levels, the shock of the hurricanes and subsequent lea...
LYNN FRANCO

Once consumers file online, they tend to stay online. The number of people filing their federal taxe...
LYNN FRANCO

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a po...
LYNN JOHNSTON

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthe...
LYNN DAVIES

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
LYNN BARBER

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-spec...
LYNN MARGULIS

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled...
LYNN MARGULIS

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into th...
LYNN ABBEY

A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives wi...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

Wall Street breathed a collective sigh of relief this week as fears of mounting inflationary pressur...
LYNN REASER

There's nothing cuter than a baby penguin.
LYNN DUNCAN

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach . . . Poke a s...
LYNN CAINE

They (investors) tend to overreact to individual economic reports which may be more statistical nois...
LYNN REASER

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gende...
LYNN COADY

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are o...
LYNN COADY

I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living...
LYNN COADY

It's just obnoxious really, you can't even take your dog out.
LYNN JOHNSON

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of wom...
LYNN NOTTAGE

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and...
LYNN FLEWELLING

The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products...
LYNN COADY

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
LYNN ABBEY

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiar...
LYNN MARGULIS

The reception and the welcome home was quite overwhelming but an indication of how much the Welsh pe...
LYNN DAVIES

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how...
LYNN DAVIES

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year e...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies an...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

Trees are one of our most valuable assets.
LYNN ARTZ

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and ...
LYNN FLEWELLING

They are definitely off auto pilot. Although another increase at the end of March seems likely, the ...
LYNN REASER

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
LYNN MARGULIS

We can't complain, but we don't necessarily agree with it. Still, it's something we can live with.
LYNN TOMINAGA

We are setting a new standard for coal ash management and implementing smart, sustainable solutions ...
LYNN GOOD

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could...
LYNN REDGRAVE

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