Branch Rickey Quotes
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.Branch Rickey
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen -
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
Forest Whitaker -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure -
I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
Zach Braff -
The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
Vanessa Mae -
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
Ice Cube -
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
Walter Hagen -
It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
Rafael Nadal
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I never really did any disco dancing.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
Pat Conroy -
Our troops do an incredible job every single day, but our policymakers have not lived up to the sacrifices that our troops make every day.
Tammy Duckworth -
Acting's boring.
Ian McShane -
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
Zahi Hawass -
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
Saint Basil
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke -
I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yitzhak Rabin -
To live classically and to realize antiquity practically within oneself is the summit and goal of philology.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
We are all part of the ecosystem.
Bette Midler -
The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.
Branch Rickey