Branch Rickey Quotes
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.Branch Rickey
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
Young Buck -
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
Omari Hardwick -
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne -
I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
Larry Wilcox -
I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
Every sport has its own cast of characters.
Randy Savage -
You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
Dan Quayle -
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious -
It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.
Felicity Jones
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
Rachel Weisz -
It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
Gary Bauer -
Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Rafael Cruz -
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
Kaley Cuoco -
My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
Indira Gandhi -
This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
Fat Joe
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People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.
Sebastian Horsley -
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
A. R. Ammons -
Every now and then I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me, and I experience racism. Things like not being buzzed into a store or sitting in first class on a plane and having someone ask to see my ticket four times.
Chris Rock -
Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.
Pete Hoekstra -
I need to work myself into baseball shape. This is part of spring training. I still have to be careful. When the lights come on, I get focused.
Gary Sheffield -
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey